endogen
Americannoun
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endogens
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noun
Other Word Forms
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endogenizationnoun
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endogenynoun
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endogenizeverb
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endogenicadjective
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endogenousadjective
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non-endogenousadjective
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semi-endogenousadjective
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endogenouslyadverb
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The endogen in general use is the elai's, which is considered to supply a better and more delicate liquor than the raphia.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Smilax belongs to a transition class, partaking somewhat of the nature of endogen and of exogen.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various
The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and included all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section D and E by Project Gutenberg
The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section D and E by Project Gutenberg
Cannot a man work in wood without knowing all about endogens and exogens, or must he attend Professor Gray's Lectures before he can be trusted to make a box-trap?
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are plants normally of an intermediate character, while, to take exceptional instances, there are exogens with the leaves and flowers of endogens, and endogens whose outward organisation, at any rate, assimilates them to exogens.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
From ground to high parapet the spaces between the columns were filled with lianas, unrelated big leaves, and the characteristic fronds of the endogens.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
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