The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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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
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
Janet quoted Wordsworth, and Cathy scored by mentioning exogens and endogens with an air of much knowledge.
From The Fortunes of Philippa A School Story by Angela Brazil
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
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
