eruptive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective producing or characterized by eruptions
    • an eruptive disease
  2. adjective produced by the action of fire or intense heat
    igneous.
    • rocks formed by igneous agents
  3. adjective satellite actively spewing out lava
    • a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring

WordNet


E*rup"tive adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. éruptif.
Definitions
  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.
E*rup"tive noun
Definitions
  1. (Geol.) An eruptive rock.

Webster 1913