moya
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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- 9
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Definition of moya
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption.
“These are the principal tufas indicative of the boiling tufaceous mud, or moya, which once filled, even to an overflow, the valley of Rieden.”
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noun
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption.
“These are the principal tufas indicative of the boiling tufaceous mud, or moya, which once filled, even to an overflow, the valley of Rieden.”
name
- A surname from Spanish.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language.
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