a. [f. the name Stromboli, one of the Lipari Islands + -AN.] Of, pertaining to or characteristic of Stromboli, its volcano or volcanic eruptions.
1903. A. Geikie, Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 4), I. 278. The second [phase of volcanic energy], known as the Strombolian, is shown by a continual eructatior of dust and stones.
1906. A. Lacroix, in Smithsonian Rep., 224. This type of explosion I designate with Mercalli the Strombolian type.
