Adjective
- 1. eruptive
- usage: producing or characterized by eruptions; "an eruptive disease"
- 2. igneous (vs. aqueous), eruptive
- usage: produced by the action of fire or intense heat; "rocks formed by igneous agents"
- 3. eruptive, active (vs. dormant)
- usage: actively spewing out lava; "a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring"
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