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(adj) fiery
like or suggestive of fire
a fiery desert wind; an igneous desert atmosphere
(adj) eruptive
produced by the action of fire or intense heat
rocks formed by igneous agents
(adj) pyrogenic, pyrogenous
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