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pyrophanous

pyrophanous adjective: made transparent or translucent when heated.

Adjective

pyrophanous (not comparable)

  1. made transparent or translucent when heated

Origin of pyrophanous

From pyro- (“heat”) + -phanous.

Questions about pyrophanous

What does pyrophanous mean?
Pyrophanous means made transparent or translucent when heated.
What part of speech is pyrophanous?
Pyrophanous is an adjective.

Words near pyrophanous in the dictionary

  1. pyropens
  2. pyropes
  3. pyrophane
  4. pyrophanes
  5. pyrophanite
  6. pyrophanous
  7. pyropheophorbide
  8. pyropheophorbides
  9. pyropheophytin
  10. pyropheophytins
  11. pyrophile

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