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pyroclastics

pyroclastics is the plural of pyroclastic.

Meaning of pyroclastic

Noun

pyroclastic (plural pyroclastics)

  1. 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...

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Questions about pyroclastics

What is pyroclastics the plural of?
Pyroclastics is the plural of pyroclastic.

Words near pyroclastics in the dictionary

  1. pyroclastic rock
  2. pyroclastic rocks
  3. pyroclastic surge
  4. pyroclastic surges
  5. pyroclastically
  6. pyroclastics
  7. pyroclasts
  8. pyroclimate
  9. pyroclimates
  10. pyroclimatic
  11. pyrocoll

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