A tall column of fire and smoke that shoots upward, or a spout or opening from which flames or burning material is ejected.
Compound of 'fire' and 'spout' (from Middle Dutch 'spuiten'), likely a 19th-century term describing the dramatic visual phenomenon of fire erupting upward.
Firespouts can form during massive wildfires when rising heat creates vortexes that spin like tornadoes made of pure flame—they're rare but terrifying, sometimes reaching temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun!
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