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pyrocultural

pyrocultural adjective: of or relating to pyroculture.

Adjective

pyrocultural (comparative more pyrocultural, superlative most pyrocultural)

  1. Of or relating to pyroculture.
    • Reinterpreting early eyewitness accounts and visual records, Gammage enables the reader to ‘see’ what was once invisible: a land intentionally shaped by skilful pyrocultural interventions.2020, Jeremy Walker, More Heat Then Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy and Economics, page 61
    • This first pyrocultural activity entailed the chemical reduction of ore minerals in charcoal-burning furnaces.2016, Mike Leeder, Joy Lawlor, GeoBritannica: Geological Landscapes and the British Peoples

Forms of pyrocultural

comparativemore pyrocultural
superlativemost pyrocultural

Origin of pyrocultural

From pyro- + cultural or pyroculture + -al.

Questions about pyrocultural

What does pyrocultural mean?
Pyrocultural means of or relating to pyroculture.
What part of speech is pyrocultural?
Pyrocultural is an adjective.

Words near pyrocultural in the dictionary

  1. pyroconductivity
  2. pyroconvection
  3. pyroconvective
  4. pyroconversion
  5. pyrocotton
  6. pyrocultural
  7. pyroculture
  8. pyrocumuli
  9. pyrocumulonimbi
  10. pyrocumulonimbus
  11. pyrocumulus

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