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What is a pahoehoe?

What is a pahoehoe? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A form of lava flow of basaltic rock, usually dark-colored with a smooth or ropey surface. It is one of two chief forms of lava flow emitted from volcanoes of the Hawaiian type, the other form being aa.
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Lazarus leapt from the pahoehoe and landed next to his guide, leaning against the volcano for a moment.
Very different from jagged aa, pahoehoe is the other general texture of newly solidified lava.
She will fill up your fishing grounds with the pahoehoe, and you will starve.
A pahoehoe flow, not very active, was emerging from a tunnel situated at the base of the crater Kaf.
As much as 99 percent of the island of Hawaii is composed of aa and pahoehoe flows.
Herding cattle and galloping horses across rough a'a lava fields and smoother pahoehoe takes a special kind of cowboy-the Kona paniolo.

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