eruptive
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See also: éruptive
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[edit]eruptive (comparative more eruptive, superlative most eruptive)
- That erupts or bursts forth.
- a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
- The sudden glance / Appears far south eruptive through the cloud.
- Accompanied by eruptions.
- an eruptive fever
- (geology) Produced by eruption.
- eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 35:
- The region is further diversified by short ranges of eruptive mountains.
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Noun
[edit]eruptive (plural eruptives)
- An eruptive rock, one produced by eruption.
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[edit]eruptive
- inflection of eruptiv: