ERUPTIVE

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Breaking out or bursting forth. The sudden glance Appears far south eruptive through the cloud. Thomson.

2.
a.

Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever.

3.
a.

Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic.

4.
n.

An eruptive rock.


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