Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, resembling, or caused by a volcano or volcanoes: a volcanic peak; volcanic islands.
- adj. Produced by or discharged from a volcano: volcanic ash.
- adj. Characterized by the presence of volcanoes.
- adj. Powerfully explosive: a volcanic temper.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.
- adj. Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies; as, volcanic tufa.
- adj. Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
- adj. Reminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes.
- adj. Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies.
- adj. Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes
- adj. explosively unstable
- adj. igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt
Etymologies
- From French volcanique, from volcan; and/or directly from volcan(o) + -ic. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Volcanic scenery is by no means confined to what we call the volcanic national parks.”
“For some odd reason, I can just see that place getting covered in volcanic ash and then dug up 5000 years from now.”
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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.”
“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.”
“And some megapodes do take advantage of geothermal heat in volcanic soil to do this.”
“The Spaniards also took advantage of the proximity of the volcano, planting sugar cane, which thrives in volcanic soil.”
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“It is a 34 million year old assemblage of fossil plants preserved in volcanic ash claystones.”
“It consists of a synthetically manufactured mineral known as zeolite, which occurs naturally within volcanic rock.”
“The opal mined today was formed many millions of years ago in volcanic rocks.”
“The most important center of the Mexican highlands after the fall of Teotihuacan was Cholula, near the twin volcanic peaks Iztaccihuatl and Popocatepetl and the city of Puebla.”
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Interesting words
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Myth
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My Favourite Kind
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Passion!
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EAP 80
restrain, intermediate, displace, evolve, fluctuate, integrate, rigid, accommodate, continent, climate, volcanic, mantle and 11 more...
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Land and climate
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new English words
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