Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, resembling, or caused by a volcano or volcanoes.
- adjective Produced by or discharged from a volcano.
- adjective Characterized by the presence of volcanoes.
- adjective Powerfully explosive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In petrography, a volcanic rock: generally used in the plural.
- Pertaining to or produced by volcanoes or volcanic action: as, volcanic heat, volcanic rock, volcanic phenomena, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes.
- adjective Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies.
- adjective Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
- adjective a mass ejected from a volcano, often of molten lava having a rounded form.
- adjective a hill, conical in form, built up of cinders, tufa, or lava, during volcanic eruptions.
- adjective the subterranean centers of volcanic action; the points beneath volcanoes where the causes producing volcanic phenomena are most active.
- adjective the vitreous form of lava, produced by sudden cooling; obsidian. See
Obsidian . - adjective fetid, sulphurous mud discharged by a volcano.
- adjective rocks which have been produced from the discharges of volcanic matter, as the various kinds of basalt, trachyte, scoria, obsidian, etc., whether compact, scoriaceous, or vitreous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat. - adjective Produced by a
volcano , or, more generally, byigneous agencies; as, volcanictufa . - adjective Changed or affected by the
heat of a volcano. - adjective Reminiscent of a volcano;
explosive ,violent , full of suppressed anger,energy etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes
- adjective explosively unstable
- adjective igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt
Etymologies
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Examples
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Volcanic scenery is by no means confined to what we call the volcanic national parks.
The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903
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For some odd reason, I can just see that place getting covered in volcanic ash and then dug up 5000 years from now.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Like Some Weird Cargo-Cult Temple 2009
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Other compounds detected in volcanic gases are oxygen (meteoric), hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen bromide, nitrogen oxide (NOx), sulfur hexafluoride, carbonyl sulfide, and organic compounds.
The BBC and global warming Not a sheep 2009
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Mohammad Ali/EPA A woman was seen inside a rescue vehicle covered in volcanic ash in Sidorejo Village, Klaten, Central Java.
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And some megapodes do take advantage of geothermal heat in volcanic soil to do this.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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The Spaniards also took advantage of the proximity of the volcano, planting sugar cane, which thrives in volcanic soil.
The Cuisine Of Colima: Tropical Delights From Mexico's Pacific Coast 2006
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The Spaniards also took advantage of the proximity of the volcano, planting sugar cane, which thrives in volcanic soil.
The Cuisine Of Colima: Tropical Delights From Mexico's Pacific Coast 2006
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It is a 34 million year old assemblage of fossil plants preserved in volcanic ash claystones.
Archive 2006-10-01 ScienceWoman 2006
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It consists of a synthetically manufactured mineral known as zeolite, which occurs naturally within volcanic rock.
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The opal mined today was formed many millions of years ago in volcanic rocks.
Mexican fire opals 2000
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