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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

volcanistic en · ADJ

Etymology

From volcano + -istic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of, or related to volcanism.
    • The old volcanistic metaphor is especially apt: a thick, hard crust of earth, beneath which bubbles, hot liquid magma pressing for release above. 2004, Howard F. Stein, Beneath the Crust of Culture: Psychoanalytic Anthropology and the Cultural: