volcanic

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes
• Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies
• Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
• Reminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.

Noun

• A volcanic rock.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• cryovolcanic

Origin

• From French volcanique, from volcan; and/or directly from volcano + -ic.