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volcanic.

Adjective
Setting
MEANING

Relating to volcanoes or materials and landforms they produce.

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  • volcanic ash
  • volcanic island

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Volcanic ash coated the abandoned orchard.
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volcanic

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Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.

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