Meaning of ERUPTIVE
| Pronunciation: | | i'ruptiv
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | active, erupting(a), extrusive, intrusive, irruptive, plutonic, volcanic |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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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