volcaniclastic
adjective, noun
volcaniclastic is an adjective meaning “Being a clastic rock chiefly composed of volcanic materials” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-L-C-A-N-I-C-L-A-S-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 36 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does volcaniclastic mean?
adjective
- 1
Being a clastic rock chiefly composed of volcanic materials
noun
- 1
A clastic rock chiefly composed of volcanic materials
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of volcaniclastic
- volcaniclastics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is volcaniclastic?
Volcaniclastic appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does volcaniclastic come from?
From volcanic + clastic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).