Usually means: Volcanic, porous, cindery rock fragments.
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  1. scoria: Merriam-Webster
  2. scoria: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scoria: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scoria: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scoria: Vocabulary.com
  6. scoria: Wordnik
  7. scoria: Wiktionary
  8. scoria: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. scoria: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. scoria: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. scoria: Dictionary.com
  12. Scoria (disambiguation), Scoria: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Scoria: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. scoria: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. scoria: Rhymezone
  16. Scoria: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. scoria: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. scoria: FreeDictionary.org
  19. scoria: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. scoria: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. scoria: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. scoria: Encyclopedia

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  1. scoria: Medical dictionary

(Note: See scoriaceous as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (scoria)

noun:  The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore.
noun:  (geology) Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater.

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