cooledlava
nounUK /kuːld ˈlɑːvə/
US /kuːld ˈlɑːvə/
Cooled lava is hot melted rock that has become hard and cold.
We walked carefully across the cooled lava, which felt like rough gray stone.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. The dark, rocky ground left behind after a volcano's lava stops flowing and hardens.
The hikers crossed a wide field of cooled lava near the volcano.
3. Rock formed when melted rock from a volcano freezes into a solid.
Scientists collected samples of cooled lava to study the eruption.
4. A surface that looks like wrinkled or cracked stone because lava hardened on it.
The cooled lava had deep cracks running through it.