Eruptive

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Eruptive \E*rup"tive\, n. (Geol.)
     An eruptive rock.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Eruptive \E*rup"tive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]ruptif.]
     1. Breaking out or bursting forth.
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              The sudden glance
              Appears far south eruptive through the cloud.
                                                    --Thomson.
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     2. (Med.) Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or
        producing it; as, an eruptive fever.
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     3. (Geol.) Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as
        the igneous or volcanic.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  eruptive
       adj 1: 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"
              [syn: {volcanic}]
       2: of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's
          surface; granite or diorite or gabbro [syn: {irruptive}, {plutonic}]
       3: erupting or tending to erupt; "a geyser is an intermittently
          eruptive hot spring"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "eruptive":
     agitable, bursting, detonating, edgy, emotional,
     emotionally unstable, excitable, explodable, explosible, explosive,
     fulminating, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung,
     highly emotional, inflammable, irascible, irritable, mettlesome,
     nervous, perturbable, prickly, sensitive, skittish, startlish,
     touchy, volcanic