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calorifiant

calorifiant is the alternative form of calorifacient.

Meaning of calorifacient

Adjective

calorifacient (comparative more calorifacient, superlative most calorifacient)

  1. (dated) heat-producing; applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation.
    Synonyms:
    heaty

Forms of calorifiant

comparativemore calorifiant
superlativemost calorifiant

Questions about calorifiant

What is calorifiant the alternative form of?
Calorifiant is the alternative form of calorifacient.

Words near calorifiant in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: calorifiant (page history and authors); calorifacient (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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