Vulcanic vs. Volcanic

Vulcanicadjective

Fiery.

Volcanicadjective

Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes

‘volcanic heat’; ‘volcanic activity’;

Vulcanicadjective

Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; Vulcanian.

Volcanicadjective

Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies

‘volcanic tufa’; ‘volcanic ash’;

Vulcanicadjective

Of or pertaining to volcanoes; specifically, relating to the geological theory of the Vulcanists, or Plutonists.

Volcanicadjective

Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.

Volcanicadjective

(figurative) Reminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.

Volcanicnoun

A volcanic rock.

‘The Ellesmere Island Volcanics are a Late Cretaceous volcanic group of volcanoes and lava flows in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.’;

Volcanicadjective

Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.

Volcanicadjective

Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies; as, volcanic tufa.

Volcanicadjective

Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.

Volcanicadjective

relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes;

‘volcanic steam’; ‘volcanic islands such as Iceland’; ‘a volcanic cone is a conical mountain or hill built up of material from volcanic eruptions’;

Volcanicadjective

explosively unstable;

‘a volcanic temper’;

Volcanicadjective

igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt;

‘volcanic rock includes the volcanic glass obsidian’;