| a. | 1. | Breaking out or bursting forth. |
| 2. | (Med.) Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; | |
| 3. | (Geol.) Produced by eruption; | |
| n. | 1. | (Geol.) An eruptive rock. |
| Adj. | 1. | eruptive - 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" Synonyms: volcanic |
| 2. | eruptive - of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro | |
| 3. | eruptive - erupting or tending to erupt; "a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring" |
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