Usually means: Explosive eruption of viscous magma.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word Vulcanian:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. vulcanian: Merriam-Webster
  2. Vulcanian, vulcanian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vulcanian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vulcanian: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Vulcanian: Wordnik
  6. Vulcanian: Wiktionary
  7. Vulcanian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Vulcanian: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Vulcanian: Dictionary.com
  10. Vulcanian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Vulcanian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. vulcanian: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Vulcanian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. vulcanian: FreeDictionary.org
  15. vulcanian: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vulcanian: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vulcanian: A Word A Day

Definitions from Wiktionary (Vulcanian)

adjective:  (Roman mythology) Of, related to, or created by Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalwork, considered equivalent to the Greek Hephaestus and several German and Celtic gods.
adjective:  (geology, now rare, archaic) Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, volcanic, of or related to volcanoes and volcanism.
adjective:  (historical) Of or related to former theories attributing the origin of basalt and other crystalline minerals to subterranean fires.
adjective:  Of or related to volcanic eruptions or phases of a volcanic eruption when repeated explosions produce a thick ash cloud.
adjective:  (astronomy) Of or related to the proposed planet Vulcan or a cluster of asteroids at the same location in the Solar System.
adjective:  (rare, obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, a cuckold.
adjective:  (literary, now uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, of or related to metalwork, blacksmithing, and metallurgy.

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