Plinian
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of Plinian
C20: named after Pliny the Younger, who described such eruptions
Example Sentences
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A 550-year-old Plinian eruption at El Chichón Volcano, Chiapas, Mexico: explosive volcanism linked to reheating of the magma reservoir.
From Nature • Dec. 12, 2017
The mountain is at Alert Level 2: A full-scale Plinian eruption may be unlikely, but smaller events would be very hard to predict.
From Slate • Feb. 29, 2012
Read two papers before the Plinian Society of Edinburgh "at the close of 1826 or early in 1827."
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
A notice of the ciliated germs of Flustra, communicated to the Plinian Society in 1826, was the first fruits of Darwin's half century of scientific work.
From Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Huxley, Thomas Henry
I have not seen it remarked that these pygmies are mentioned by Andrew Battel Plinian at the end of the sixteenth century.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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