VOLCANICALLY

volcanically

(adverb) by or like volcanoes; “volcanically created landscape”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

volcanically (comparative more volcanically, superlative most volcanically)

By means of a volcano.

Source: Wiktionary


Vol*can"ic*al*ly, adv.

Definition: Like a volcano.

VOLCANIC

Vol*can"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. volcanique, It. vulcanico.]

1. Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.

2. Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies; as, volcanic tufa.

3. Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano. Volcanic bomb, a mass ejected from a volcano, often of molten lava having a rounded form.

– Volcanic cone, a hill, conical in form, built up of cinders, tufa, or lava, during volcanic eruptions.

– Volcanic foci, the subterranean centers of volcanic action; the points beneath volcanoes where the causes producing volcanic phenomena are most active.

– Volcanic glass, the vitreous form of lava, produced by sudden cooling; obsidian. See Obsidian.

– Volcanic mud, fetid, sulphurous mud discharged by a volcano.

– Volcanic rocks, rocks which have been produced from the discharges of volcanic matter, as the various kinds of basalt, trachyte, scoria, obsidian, etc., whether compact, scoriaceous, or vitreous.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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