1.
2.
[syn: igneous, eruptive]
3. actively spewing out lava;
- Example: "a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Eruptive \E*rup"tive\, n. (Geol.)
An eruptive rock.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
eruptive
adj 1: producing or characterized by eruptions; "an eruptive
disease"
2: produced by the action of fire or intense heat; "rocks formed
by igneous agents" [syn: igneous, eruptive] [ant:
aqueous, sedimentary]
3: actively spewing out lava; "a geyser is an intermittently
eruptive hot spring"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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