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caloriferous

caloriferous adjective: producing or transmitting heat.

Adjective

caloriferous (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Producing or transmitting heat.

Questions about caloriferous

What does caloriferous mean?
Caloriferous means producing or transmitting heat.
What part of speech is caloriferous?
Caloriferous is an adjective.

Words near caloriferous in the dictionary

  1. calorieless
  2. calories
  3. calorifacient
  4. calorifere
  5. caloriferes
  6. caloriferous
  7. calorifiant
  8. calorific
  9. calorific ray
  10. calorific rays
  11. calorific value

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