pyrogenous : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pyrogenous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for pyrogenous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pyrogenous adj produced by or producing fever [syn: pyrogenic, pyrogenous, pyrogenetic] 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" Synonym(s): igneous, pyrogenic, pyrogenous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pyrogenous \Pyrog"enous\, a. [Gr. [?] fire + genous: cf. F. purog[8a]ne, Gr. [?].] Produced by fire; igneous. --Mantell. .