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CALDERA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("caldera" is a kind of...):
crater; volcanic crater (a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano)
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