Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mount_vesuvius

1 sense of mount vesuvius

Sense 1
Vesuvius, Mount Vesuvius, Mt. Vesuvius -- (a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944)
       INSTANCE OF=> volcano -- (a mountain formed by volcanic material)