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ERUPTIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eruptive mean?
• ERUPTIVE (adjective)
The adjective ERUPTIVE has 3 senses:
1. producing or characterized by eruptions
2. produced by the action of fire or intense heat
3. actively spewing out lava
Familiarity information: ERUPTIVE used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Producing or characterized by eruptions
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
an eruptive disease
Pertainym:
eruption (symptom consisting of a breaking out and becoming visible)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Produced by the action of fire or intense heat
Synonyms:
eruptive; igneous
Context example:
rocks formed by igneous agents
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Actively spewing out lava
Context example:
a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring
Similar:
active ((of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt)
Derivation:
erupt (become raw or open)
Context examples
An acute infectious, eruptive, febrile disease caused by four antigenically related but distinct serotypes of the DENGUE VIRUS.
(Dengue Fever, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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