eruptive

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eruptive - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Eruptive \E*rup"tive\, n. (Geol.)
     An eruptive rock.
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  Eruptive \E*rup"tive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]ruptif.]
     1. Breaking out or bursting forth.
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              The sudden glance
              Appears far south eruptive through the cloud.
                                                    --Thomson.
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     2. (Med.) Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or
        producing it; as, an eruptive fever.
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     3. (Geol.) Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as
        the igneous or volcanic.
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eruptive - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  eruptive
      adj 1: producing or characterized by eruptions; "an eruptive
             disease"
      2: produced by the action of fire or intense heat; "rocks formed
         by igneous agents" [syn: igneous, eruptive] [ant:
         aqueous, sedimentary]
      3: actively spewing out lava; "a geyser is an intermittently
         eruptive hot spring"

eruptive - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "eruptive":
     agitable, bursting, detonating, edgy, emotional,
     emotionally unstable, excitable, explodable, explosible, explosive,
     fulminating, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung,
     highly emotional, inflammable, irascible, irritable, mettlesome,
     nervous, perturbable, prickly, sensitive, skittish, startlish,
     touchy, volcanic