Meaning & use
Pillowing
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Forming into soft, rounded masses resembling pillows; in geology, describing lava that cools into rounded blobs underwater.
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The basalt shows classic pillowing, a sign it once erupted beneath the sea.
Fresh snow was pillowing up against the fence in soft drifts.
A note on using this word
Best known from the geological term 'pillow lava', formed when molten rock erupts underwater and cools quickly into rounded lobes.
Another way to use it
2. verb
To rest or support something as if on a pillow.
She pillowed her head on her folded jacket and fell asleep.
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