Noun: scoria
| Singular | scoria |
| Plural | scoriae |
Sample Sentences
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The like stuff is in Anacharsis: hot metal; full of scoriae, which should and could have been smelted out, but which will not. [1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):]
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To the south lay broken shapes of scoria in a lava bed as far as the eye could see. [1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter XVII, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:]
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An excellent guidebook by Drs Kilburn and McGuire of University College London reveals that these unpromising pieces of debris are scoria and lithic fragments of the March 1944 eruption. [2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 10:]
Nouns inflected like scoria
scoria,
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English, from Latin scōria, from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría), from σκῶρ (skôr, “dung”). See: Latin Nouns '
scōria', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σκωρία'.