Crossword-Solution: EJECTAMENTA
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with EJECTAMENTA (5)
All substances thrown out by the volcano, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, are conveniently united under the term ejectamenta (Latin, things thrown out), and all of them are in an intensely heated, if not an incandescent state.
They are all embedded in a light porous tuff, resembling in colour and mineral composition the ejectamenta of several of the latest eruptions of Denise.
The interstratification of loam and volcanic ejectamenta was probably occasioned by the fluviatile mud having gradually enveloped the cones of loose scoriae after they were completely formed.
Again, it must be remembered that this estimate takes no account of solid materials otherwise brought into the oceanic deposits; _e.g._, by wind-transported dust from the land or volcanic ejectamenta in the ocean depths.
The stream of lava ejected from the various _boccarelle_ was 400 metres long, 80 wide, and 2 metres in thickness, and the bulk of volcanic material brought to the surface, including the principal cone and its thirty-five subordinates and their ejectamenta, was calculated to amount to 1,351,000 cubic metres.