pyroclastic
pyroclastic adjective: mostly composed of rock fragments of volcanic origin or comminuted during an eruption.
Adjective
pyroclastic (not comparable)
- Mostly composed of rock fragments of volcanic origin or comminuted during an eruption.
- The word "ash" is not a very good one to include all the mechanical accompaniments of a subaerial or subaqueous eruption, since ash seems to be restricted to a fine powder, the residuum of combustion. A word is wanting to express all such accompaniments, no matter what their size or condition may...1862, Joseph Beete Jukes, “Igneous Rocks”, in The Student's Manual of Geology, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, page 68
- Within sixty seconds, the entire area was razed by pyroclastic material with a temperature of nearly two thousand degrees Fahrenheit.2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 61
Noun
pyroclastic (plural pyroclastics)
- A rock mostly composed of rock fragments of volcanic origin.
- The basic volcanics are altered andesites, porphyritic diabases and andesites, and various pyroclastics.1897, “General Notes: Geology and Paleontology”, in Edward D. Cope, Frederick C. Kenyon, editors, The American Naturalist: An Illustrated Magazine of Natural History, volume 31, Philadelphia: The...
pyroclastic meaning in Tamil
pyroclastic in Tamil
- எரிதுண்டப் பாறை, தீப்பாறைப் பேற்றுக்குரிய
Forms of pyroclastic
| plural | pyroclastics |
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Origin of pyroclastic
From pyro- + clastic, from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), and κλαστός (klastós, “broken”).
Words formed from pyroclastic
Phrases with pyroclastic
Words that rhyme with pyroclastic
- plastic
- elastic
- fantastic
- bombastic
- mastic
- spastic
- heteroplastic
- inelastic
- periphrastic
- pleonastic
- aclastic
- alloplastic
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- anaclastic
- anaplastic
- anticlastic
- aplastic
- autoplastic
- basiplastic
- ceroplastic
- chiastic
- clastic
- cosmoplastic
- drastic
- encomiastic
- enthusiastic
- epispastic
- gelastic
- gymnastic
- heteroblastic
- holophrastic
- homoblastic
- homoplastic
- macroplastic
- normoplastic
- onomastic
- paraphrastic
- sarcastic
- synclastic
- achondroplastic
- agelastic
- antineoplastic
- antiphrastic
- antispastic
- apicoplastic
- autoschediastic
- cataclastic
- chiliastic
- conplastic
- cranioplastic
- docimastic
- dramastic
- dynastic
- dysplastic
- ecclesiastic
- ectoblastic
- ectoplastic
- electroplastic
- emplastic
- epiblastic
- epinastic
Questions about pyroclastic
- What does pyroclastic mean?
- Pyroclastic means mostly composed of rock fragments of volcanic origin or comminuted during an eruption.
- What is pyroclastic in Tamil?
- Pyroclastic in Tamil is எரிதுண்டப் பாறை, தீப்பாறைப் பேற்றுக்குரிய. See Pyroclastic meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is pyroclastic?
- Pyroclastic can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near pyroclastic in the dictionary
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