Vulcanian

English

Etymology

Vulcan +‎ -ian

Adjective

Vulcanian (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the god Vulcan.
  2. Of or pertaining to working in iron or other metals.
  3. (geology, archaic) volcanic.
  4. Of or pertaining to the hypothetical Solar System planet Vulcan or proposed asteroid belt in the same orbit about the Sun.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Vulcanian in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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