Plinian
Plinian relating to or denoting a type of a volcanic eruption in which a narrow stream of gas and ash is violently ejected from a vent to a height of several miles. The word comes (in the mid 17th century) from Italian pliniano, with reference to the eruption of Vesuvius in ad 79, in which Pliny the Elder died.
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