EXOGEN • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Exogen

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

Exogen n. (Bot.) A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen.

See images of 'Exogen'

Etymology of 'Exogen'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

Words linked to "Exogen" : flowering plant, jiqui, exogenic, class Dicotyledones, barbados cherry, acerola, dicot, family Cyrilliaceae, Malpighia obovata, surinam cherry, magnoliopsid, Magnoliopsida, West Indian cherry, Malpighia glabra, titi family, cyrilla family, dicotyledon