pyric

[ pahy-rik, pir-ik ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or resulting from burning.

Example Sentences

Widen the aperture a bit, and we can envision Earth entering a fire age comparable to the ice ages of the Pleistocene, complete with the pyric equivalent of ice sheets, pluvial lakes, periglacial outwash plains, mass extinctions, and sea level changes.

From Salon

That set into motion a “pyric transition” that resembles the demographic transition which accompanies industrialization as human populations first expand, then recede.

From Salon

When humans began to burn fossilized rather than living biomass, it set in motion a "pyric transition," he writes.

From Fox News

The historian Stephen Pyne calls this the "pyric transition".

From BBC

Yeah, this is California, the land of tectonic and pyric upheaval.

From Slate