volcanistic

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English

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Etymology

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From volcano +‎ -istic.

Adjective

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volcanistic (comparative more volcanistic, superlative most volcanistic)

  1. Of, or related to volcanism.
    • 2004, Howard F. Stein, Beneath the Crust of Culture: Psychoanalytic Anthropology and the Cultural[1]:
      The old volcanistic metaphor is especially apt: a thick, hard crust of earth, beneath which bubbles, hot liquid magma pressing for release above.

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