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单词 eruptive
释义 erup·tive
I. \-ptiv, -tēv also -təv\ adjective
Etymology: eruption + -ive
1.
 a. : erupting or tending to erupt : bursting forth : breaking out
  < describes a geyser as an intermittently eruptive hot spring >
  < the eruptive imagery of the poem >
  : having the character of an eruption
  < a brawl was the first eruptive result of the rising hostility >
 b. : characterized by eruption
  < the eruptive stage of smallpox >
  < eruptive letters full of outbursts of anger or joking >
2. : producing eruption
 < an eruptive fever >
3. : produced by eruption — usually used of intrusive rocks (as granite, diorite, gabbro) or extrusive rocks (as rhyolite, andesite, basalt)
erup·tive·ly \-tə̇vlē, -li\ adverb
erup·tive·ness \-tivnə̇s, -tēv- also -təv-\ noun -es
II. noun
(-s)
: an igneous rock
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