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endogen Bot.|ˈɛndəʊdʒɪn|
[Fr. endogène (De Candolle 1813) f. Gr. ἔνδο-ν (see endo-) + -γενής born, produced. (A Gr. ἐνδογενής is found with sense ‘born in the house’).]
A plant in which new wood is developed in the interior of the stem, which is not differentiated into wood and bark; opposed to exogen. Also fig.
Hence endogeˈneity [badly formed after homogeneity], the fact of being endogenous.
1842Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §3 (1880) 70 Endogenous, or inside growing, and for such plants the name of Endogenous Plants, or Endogens. 1867J. Martineau Ess. II. 167 Man is still definable as a mere intellectual endogen. 1872H. Macmillan True Vine iii. 76 The peculiarity of the endogen is to be simple and unbranched in all its parts. 1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 234 What is called Endogeneity. |