pyrogenous

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pyrogenous - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pyrogenous \Py*rog"e*nous\, a. [Gr. ? fire + genous: cf. F.
     purog[`e]ne, Gr. ?.]
     Produced by fire; igneous. --Mantell. .
     [1913 Webster]

pyrogenous - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pyrogenous
      adj 1: produced by or producing fever [syn: pyrogenic,
             pyrogenous, pyrogenetic]
      2: produced under conditions involving intense heat; "igneous
         rock is rock formed by solidification from a molten state;
         especially from molten magma"; "igneous fusion is fusion by
         heat alone"; "pyrogenic strata" [syn: igneous, pyrogenic,
         pyrogenous]