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
Attends meetings of the Plinian Royal Medical and Wernerian societies.
From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
I never could come into the custom of envelopes; 'tis a modern foppery; the Plinian correspondence gives no hint of such.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
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
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