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Definition of Peperino

Peperino
Peperine Pep"e*rine, Peperino Pep`e*ri"no, n. [It. peperino, L. piper pepper. So called on account of its color.] (Geol.) A volcanic rock, formed by the cementing together of sand, scoria, cinders, etc.

Meaning of Peperino from wikipedia

- Peperino is an Italian word describing a brown or grey volcanic tuff, containing fragments of basalt and limestone, with disseminated crystals of augite...
- ancient gates. Apart from agriculture, Viterbo's main resources are pottery, peperino stone, and wood. The town is home to the Italian gold reserves, an important...
- Hills that contain the lakes Albano and Nemi. The hills are composed of peperino (lapis alb****), a variety of tuff that is useful for construction and...
- Severans. Peperino tufa (podium faced with matching white marble) was used for the cella wall that features behind the colonnade. Blocks of peperino were left...
- Wikipedia article at [[:it:Peperino]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|it|Peperino}} to the talk page. For more...
- nearby Museum of the Imperial Fora. The forum is made of ashlar blocks of peperino tufa with Carrara marble. Its construction also includes colonnades made...
- in Pianura and Soccavo are exhausted. Campanian piperno is a cousin to peperino tuff from Lazio. Calcaterra, Domenico; Cappelletti, Piergiulio; Langella...
- partly chambers with frescoes on the walls, partly cubical blocks of peperino, hollowed out, with grooved lids. The objects found within them consist...
- that they used to create walls in a pattern known as opus reticulatum. Peperino has been used in Rome and Naples as a building stone, is a trachyte tuff...
- atop the Tabularium, which had once housed the archives of ancient Rome. Peperino blocks from the Tabularium were re-used in the left side of the palazzo...