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Eruptive Meaning & Definition
Eruptive Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Eruptive?

[adj] erupting or tending to erupt; "a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring"; "people fled from the erupting volcano"
[adj] igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro
[adj] igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt; "volcanic rock includes the volcanic glass obsidian"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Eruptive: active | erupting(a) | extrusive | intrusive | irruptive | plutonic | volcanic

Related Terms | Find terms related to Eruptive: agitable | bursting | detonating | edgy | emotional | emotionally unstable | excitable | explodable | explosible | explosive | fulminating | highly emotional | high-mettled | high-spirited | high-strung | inflammable | irascible | irritable | mettlesome | nervous | perturbable | prickly | sensitive | skittish | startlish | touchy | volcanic

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Eruptive In Webster's Dictionary

\E*rup"tive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]ruptif.] 1. Breaking out or bursting forth. The sudden glance Appears far south eruptive through the cloud. --Thomson. 2. (Med.) Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever. 3. (Geol.) Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic.
\E*rup"tive\, n. (Geol.) An eruptive rock.

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