Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A substance that produces fever.
  • adjective Causing fever.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Producing fever.
  • noun That which produces fever.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Febrific.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective rare, archaic Producing a fever.
  • noun A substance that produces a fever.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin febris, fever + –facient.]

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