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