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nuee ardente noun phr. [ne ardt] Pl. -s -s (pronounced same). E20.
[French, lit. 'burning cloud'.]
Geology. A hot dense cloud of ash and fragmented lava suspended in a mass of gas, typically ejected from the side of the dome of certain volcanoes and flowing downhill like an avalanche.