Definition of Fujinoyama

1. Noun. An extinct volcano in south central Honshu that is the highest peak in Japan; last erupted in 1707; famous for its symmetrical snow-capped peak; a sacred mountain and site for pilgrimages.

Exact synonyms: Fuji, Fuji-san, Fujiyama, Mount Fuji
Group relationships: Japan, Nihon, Nippon
Generic synonyms: Volcano

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fujinoyama

Fuchsian group
Fuchsian groups
Fucus serratus
Fucus vesiculosus
Fuegian
Fuegians
Fuego
Fuentes
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia
Fugard
Fugo
Fuji
Fuji-san
Fujian
Fujihara
Fujinoyama
Fujita scale
Fujiwara
Fujiyama
Fukien
Fukkianese
Fukui
Fukuoka
Fukushima
Ful
Fula
Fulah
Fulani
Fulbright
Fulcher

Literary usage of Fujinoyama

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"Suddenly, like lightning, the sunlight floods the highest crags of lava on the summit of fujinoyama, the stone huts, and the crowds of humbly praying ..."

2. Ohio Educational Monthly by Ohio Education Association (1882)
"MEASUREMENTS OF THE FORCE OF GRAVITY at Tokio and on the Summit of fujinoyama. By TC Mendenhall, Ph. D. Professor of Experimental Physics in Tokio ..."

3. The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal of Education by Ohio State Teachers Association (1882)
"MEASUREMENTS OF THE FORCE OF GRAVITY at Tokio and on tlie Summit of fujinoyama. By TC Mendenhall, Ph. I). Professor of Experimental Physics in Tokio Daigaku ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly (1890)
"... and the summit of fujinoyama, 1881; (4) Wave-length of some of the principal lines of the solar spectrum, .881 ; The influence of time on the change in ..."

5. Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society: Containing the by Hugh Robert Mill (1895)
"Dr T. С. Measurements of the Force of Gravity at Tokio and on the Summit of fujinoyama. 4* Tokyo, 2541 [1881] — See United States, E, ..."

6. Asia by Augustus Henry Keane (1906)
"For some distance north of this cross fissure, above which rises Fuji-yama (fujinoyama), culminating point of the Archipelago (12425 feet), the folds curve ..."

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