adjective
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erupting or tending to erupt
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resembling or of the nature of an eruption
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(of rocks) formed from such products as ash and lava resulting from volcanic eruptions
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(of a disease) characterized by skin eruptions
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of eruptive
From the French word éruptif, dating back to 1640–50. See erupt, -ive
Example Sentences
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Eruptive history, geochronology, and magmatic evolution of the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcanic complex, Chile.
From Nature • Dec. 12, 2017
Eruptive contagious diseases like scarlet fever, smallpox, and measles so affect the skin that during convalescence the cuticle scales off.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
Eruptive granite," he said to himself, "we are still in the primitive epoch.
From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Verne, Jules
Eruptive ailments are excited by external causes, which he supposes to be animalcula.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William
Ignesc′ent, emitting sparks of fire; Ignif′erous, bearing fire; Ignig′enous, engendered in fire.—Igneous rocks, those which have been erupted from the heated interior of the earth—hence also termed Eruptive rocks.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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