Pyrogenous

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  pyrogenous
       adj 1: produced by or producing fever [syn: {pyrogenic}, {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}]