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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 meanings

adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes

    “volcanic heat”

    “volcanic activity”

  2. Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies

    “volcanic tufa”

    “volcanic ash”

  3. Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.

  4. figurativeReminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.

  5. 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”

  6. Explosively unstable

    “a volcanic temper”

  7. 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

  1. 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.”

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