eruptive

See also: éruptive

English

This entry needs an audio pronunciation. If you are a native speaker with a microphone, please record this word. The recorded pronunciation will appear here when it's ready.

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, page 88, lines 1128–1130:
  ’Tis liſtening fear, and dumb amazement all: / When to the ſtartled eye the ſudden glance / Appears far ſouth, eruptive thro’ 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, “The Valley of the Colorado”, 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.

eruptive (plural eruptives)

eruptive