"fulgurite" meaning in English

See fulgurite in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: fulgurites [plural]
Etymology: From Latin fulgur + -ite. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|fulgur}} Latin fulgur, {{suffix|en||ite}} + -ite Head templates: {{en-noun}} fulgurite (plural fulgurites)
  1. Glass formed by a lightning strike melting sand or other material. Wikipedia link: fulgurite Categories (topical): Lightning Translations (glass formed by lightning): ukonvaaja (Finnish), lynrør [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), lynrøyr [feminine, neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), blixtrör [neuter] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "fulgur"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin fulgur",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
        "3": "ite"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -ite",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin fulgur + -ite.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fulgurites",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fulgurite (plural fulgurites)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ite",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Lightning",
          "orig": "en:Lightning",
          "parents": [
            "Electricity",
            "Weather",
            "Electromagnetism",
            "Atmosphere",
            "Physics",
            "Nature",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Glass formed by a lightning strike melting sand or other material."
      ],
      "id": "en-fulgurite-en-noun-mEHbwc5B",
      "links": [
        [
          "Glass",
          "glass"
        ],
        [
          "lightning strike",
          "lightning strike"
        ],
        [
          "melt",
          "melt"
        ],
        [
          "sand",
          "sand"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "glass formed by lightning",
          "word": "ukonvaaja"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "glass formed by lightning",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "lynrør"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "glass formed by lightning",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "lynrøyr"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "glass formed by lightning",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "blixtrör"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "fulgurite"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fulgurite"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "fulgur"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin fulgur",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
        "3": "ite"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -ite",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin fulgur + -ite.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fulgurites",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fulgurite (plural fulgurites)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms suffixed with -ite",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "en:Lightning"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Glass formed by a lightning strike melting sand or other material."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Glass",
          "glass"
        ],
        [
          "lightning strike",
          "lightning strike"
        ],
        [
          "melt",
          "melt"
        ],
        [
          "sand",
          "sand"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "fulgurite"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "glass formed by lightning",
      "word": "ukonvaaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "glass formed by lightning",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "lynrør"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "glass formed by lightning",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "lynrøyr"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "glass formed by lightning",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "blixtrör"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fulgurite"
}

Download raw JSONL data for fulgurite meaning in English (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.