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As an adjective, volcanic means of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes. As a noun, it means a volcanic rock.
Meanings of volcanic
8 meaningsadjective
Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes
“volcanic heat”
“volcanic activity”
Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies
“volcanic tufa”
“volcanic ash”
Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
figurativeReminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.
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”
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”
noun
A volcanic rock.
“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.”
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).