What is the meaning of volcanic?

adjective

  • Relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes.
    • usage: "volcanic steam"; "volcanic islands such as Iceland"; "a volcanic cone is a conical mountain or hill built up of material from volcanic eruptions"
  • Explosively unstable.
    • usage: "a volcanic temper"
  • Igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt.
    • usage: "volcanic rock includes the volcanic glass obsidian"
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