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irruptive

irruptive adjective: having the quality of irrupting or making irruptions.

Adjective

irruptive (comparative more irruptive, superlative most irruptive)

  1. Having the quality of irrupting or making irruptions.

Noun

irruptive (plural irruptives)

  1. An organism that is suddenly more prevalent in a region, due to irruption.
    • Connor advises birders to wait until late in the winter to look for irruptives.1988 June 17, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016

Forms of irruptive

Adjective
comparativemore irruptive
superlativemost irruptive
Noun
pluralirruptives

Words formed from irruptive

Questions about irruptive

What does irruptive mean?
Irruptive means having the quality of irrupting or making irruptions.
What part of speech is irruptive?
Irruptive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near irruptive in the dictionary

  1. irrupt
  2. irrupted
  3. irrupting
  4. irruption
  5. irruptions
  6. irruptive
  7. irruptively
  8. irruptives
  9. irrupts
  10. IRS
  11. IRSF

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