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Crater [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The aperture or mouth of a volcano.

2. A constellation of the southern hemisphere, said to contain 31 stars.

Crater [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.

2. The pit left by the explosion of a mine.

3. A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.

Crateriform [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.

Craterous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater.