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Meaning of 'eruptive' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Eruptive [ a.]
- Breaking out or bursting forth.
- Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever.
- Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic.
2 . Eruptive [ n.]
- An eruptive rock.

Meaning of 'eruptive' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . eruptive [ a]
Meaning (1):
- producing or characterized by eruptions
Example in sentence:
  • an eruptive disease
Meaning (2):
- produced by the action of fire or intense heat
Example in sentence:
  • rocks formed by igneous agents
3 . eruptive [ s]
Meaning (3):
- actively spewing out lava
Example in sentence:
  • a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring

Nearby Words:

erubescence erubescency erubescent erubescite eruca erucae erucic erucifrom eruct eructate

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