Lava vs Fava - What's the difference?
lava | fava |
The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides.
(informal, proscribed) Magma.
A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself.
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As nouns the difference between lava and fava
is that lava is the melted rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides while fava is a fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself.As a proper noun Lava
is one of the twin children of the Lord Rāma and his wife Sita in the Ramayana.lava
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(wikipedia lava)Noun
Usage notes
Geologists make a distinction between magma (molten rock underground) and lava (molten rock on the surface).Derived terms
* lava lamp * lava millstone * lava wareSee also
* aa * pahoehoeAnagrams
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Noun
(en-noun)page 269,
- Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.
page 153,
- When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.
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page 268,
- In cool temperate zones favas are planted early in the growing season, several weeks before the last frost, and grown as a summer annual, much like other vegetable crops of the Fabaceae.
