Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing or concerned in the production of fire or heat: as, pyrogenous action in the blood.
- Produced by fire; igneous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Produced by fire; igneous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective produced by
fire orheat - adjective producing fire, heat, or
fever
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective produced under conditions involving intense heat
- adjective produced by or producing fever
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Examples
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It is, however, much more common in alluvial grounds than among primitive and pyrogenous rocks.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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I place pyroxenic amygdaloid and phonolite (porphyrschiefer) at the end of the formations of Venezuela, not as being the only rocks which I consider as pyrogenous, but as those of which the volcanic origin is probably posterior to the tertiary strata.
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I consider as pyrogenous, but as those of which the volcanic origin is probably posterior to the tertiary strata.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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_cyprieres_, draped with the silvery _tillandsia_, form a background to the picture with all the grandeur of the pyrogenous granite!
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850
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