Vulcano vs. Volcano — What's the Difference?

Vulcano (Sicilian: Vurcanu) or Vulcan is a small volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about 25 km (16 mi) north of Sicily and located at the southernmost end of the seven Aeolian Islands. The island is 21 km2 (8 sq mi) in area, rises to 501 m (1,644 ft) above sea level, and it contains several volcanic calderas, including one of the four active volcanoes in Italy that are not submarine.

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and most are found underwater.

Obsolete form of volcano

An opening in the earth's crust from which lava, ash, and hot gases flow or are ejected during an eruption.

A volcano.

A similar opening on the surface of another celestial object.

A usually cone-shaped mountain formed from the materials issuing from such an opening.

A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.

To erupt; to burst forth

A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; - often popularly called a burning mountain.

A fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt

A mountain formed by volcanic material