calorifacient chili peppers. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Now starch is the great element, in all farinaceous articles, which is adapted to supply us with calorifacient food. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
The division of food into azotized and non-azotized is no doubt important, but the attempt to show that the first only is plastic or nutritive, while the second is simply calorifacient, or heat-producing, fails entirely in the face of the facts revealed by the study of man in different climates, and of numerous experiments in the feeding of animals. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference
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