Pyroclastic (adj)
piy-ro-klas-tik
(Geology) composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin.
First recorded in 1885–90; pyro- + clastic.
Example sentences
“We are here at Mount Vesuvius, surrounded by pyroclastic rock.”
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