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Plinian (iou)



Plinian adjective. M17.
[Latin Plinianus, from Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79), Roman naturalist, and his nephew Pliny the Younger (AD 61/2-113)). In sense 2 after Italian Pliniano, with ref. to the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, in which Pliny the Elder died.]
Belonging to or named after Pliny, esp. the elder. rare. M17.
Designating (a stage of) a volcanic eruption in which a narrow stream of gas and magma is violently ejected from a vent to a height of several miles. E20.