单词 | puy |
释义 | ▪ I. ‖ puy|pwiː| [F. puy, in OF. pui, poi hill, mount, hillock:—L. podium elevation, height, in med. (Franco-) L. podium, pogium hill, peak.] A small volcanic cone; spec. one of those in Auvergne, France; also, in Geol., generalized.
1858G. P. Scrope Geol. Centr. France 180 Among the puys of the Monts Dome we are enabled..to trace almost every stream of lava to the crater which marks the spot of its emission. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 203 There the traveller may see hundreds of volcanic cones, known locally as ‘puys’. 1880Dawkins Early Man iv. 74 Clusters of small lateral cones or puys sprang up on their flank, like those on Mount Etna. ▪ II. puy variant of poy n.1, a punt-pole. |

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