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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Eruptive \E*rup"tive\, n. (Geol.) An eruptive rock. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Eruptive \E*rup"tive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]ruptif.] 1. Breaking out or bursting forth. The sudden glance Appears far south eruptive through the cloud. --Thomson. 2. (Med.) Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it as an eruptive fever. 3. (Geol.) Produced by eruption; as eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: eruptive adj 1: igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt; "volcanic rock includes the volcanic glass obsidian" [syn: {volcanic}] 2: igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro [syn: {irruptive}, {plutonic}] 3: erupting or tending to erupt; "a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring"; "people fled from the erupting volcano" [syn: {erupting(a)}]
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