Associations to the word «Pyrogenic»

Wiktionary

PYROGENIC, adjective. Producing heat, especially in the body
PYROGENIC, adjective. Producing fever
PYROGENIC, adjective. (geology) of a mineral formed from a magma at high temperature

Dictionary definition

PYROGENIC, adjective. Produced by or producing fever.
PYROGENIC, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats