pahoehoe in English

noun
1
basaltic lava forming smooth undulating or ropy masses.
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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1. 20 A hornito is a small rootless spatter cone that forms on the surface of a basaltic lava flow (usually pahoehoe).

2. Usually common on the Hawaiian volcanoes, pahoehoe is a form of lava which is smooth and ropy and causes by the Congealment of lava as it is released from the volcano (Williams, 32)