The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pyrogenic \Pyr`o*gen"ic\, a. [Pyro- + -gen + -ic.] (Physiol.) Producing heat; -- said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.
Wiktionary
a. 1 producing heat, especially in the body 2 producing fever 3 (context geology English) of a mineral formed from a magma at high temperature
WordNet
adj. produced by or producing fever [syn: 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" [syn: igneous, pyrogenous]
Usage examples of "pyrogenic".
While no pyrogenic species are to be found in the British Isles, despite many attempts on the part of our breeders to induce this most valuable trait, so deadly to our shipping in the persons of the French Flamme-de-Gloire and the Spanish Flecha-del-Fuego, the native Sharpspitter breed is notable for producing a venom to incapacitate its prey.