volcanic
Plural: volcanics
Adjective
- relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes
- "volcanic steam"
- "volcanic islands such as Iceland"
- "a volcanic cone is a conical mountain or hill built up of material from volcanic eruptions"
Adjective Satellite
- explosively unstable
- "a volcanic temper"
- 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"
Adj
- Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes
- Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies
- Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
- Reminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.
Noun
- A rock or material formed from volcanic activity.
- A volcanic rock.
Examples
- Playing ’LAVA’ felt fitting, as the tile bag sometimes seemed to spew volcanic-hot letters.
- The Ellesmere Island Volcanics are a Late Cretaceous volcanic group of volcanoes and lava flows in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.
- volcanic activity
- volcanic ash
- volcanic heat
- volcanic tufa
Origin / Etymology
From French volcanique, from volcan (“volcano”); and/or directly from volcan(o) + -ic.
Synonyms
Vulcanian, volcanian
Scrabble Score: 15
volcanic: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordvolcanic: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
volcanic: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 20
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