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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 ef·fu·sive a.
 1. Pouring out; pouring forth freely. [archaic] “Washed with the effusive wave.”
 Effusive rocks Geol., volcanic rocks formed by a nonexplosive outpouring of lava in molten or plastic form; in distinction from so-called intrusive, or plutonic, rocks.
 -- Ef*fu*sive*ly, adv. -- Ef*fu*sive*ness, n.