Pyrogenous Definition & Meaning

pyrogenous
adjective
  1. produced by or producing fever
  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"

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