Definition of Eruptive

1. Adjective. Producing or characterized by eruptions. "An eruptive disease"

Partainyms: Eruption

2. Adjective. Produced by the action of fire or intense heat. "Rocks formed by igneous agents"
Exact synonyms: Igneous
Category relationships: Geology
Antonyms: Aqueous

3. Adjective. Actively spewing out lava. "A geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring"
Similar to: Active
Derivative terms: Erupt

Definition of Eruptive

1. a. Breaking out or bursting forth.

2. n. An eruptive rock.

Definition of Eruptive

1. Adjective. That erupts ¹

2. Adjective. That is accompanied by eruptions ¹

3. Adjective. Produced by eruption ¹

4. Noun. An eruptive rock ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Eruptive

1. a type of rock [n -S]

Medical Definition of Eruptive

1. 1. Breaking out or bursting forth. "The sudden glance Appears far south eruptive through the cloud." (Thomson) 2. Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever. 3. Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic. Origin: Cf. F. Eruptif. An eruptive rock. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eruptive

eruditions
eruginous
erugo
erugos
erumpent
erupt
erupted
eruptible
erupting
eruption
eruption column
eruption columns
eruption cyst
eruptional
eruptions
eruptive (current term)
eruptive fever
eruptive phase
eruptive stage
eruptive xanthoma
eruptively
eruptiveness
eruptives
eruptivity
erupts
eruv
eruvim
eruvin
eruvs
erven

Literary usage of Eruptive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1903)
"Effects on the eruptive Mass.—Allusion has been made above to the ... If any serious amount of material were incorporated by fusion into an eruptive ..."

2. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"Effusive eruptive Rocks—Crystalline Effusive Rocks and Pyroclastic or ... DYKES AND eruptive VEINS ERUPTED matter which has solidified in a more or less ..."

3. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"Effusive eruptive Rocks—Crystalline Effusive Rocks and Pyroclastic or ... DYKES AND eruptive VEINS ERUPTED matter which has solidified in a more or less ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1853)
"Plague and glanders, on the other hand, are true eruptive fevers; and, ... All the eruptive fevers, strictly so-called, invariably run a natural course, ..."

5. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"Manner of eruption is indicated by shape and sharpness of contacts, presence of inclusions characters of inclusions, and shape of the eruptive body. ..."

6. Human Geography: An Attempt at a Positive Classification, Principles and by Jean Brunhes, Isaiah Bowman, Richard Elwood Dodge, Irville Charles Le Compte (1920)
"Clermont-Ferrand, Riom, Aurillac, etc., more important cities, are found where the eruptive rocks meet the richer soils of the great Oligocene basin of the ..."

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