pertaining to the production of or tending to produce male offspring
Word origin
[1750–60; andro- + -genous]This word is first recorded in the period 1750–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: infiltrate, permeability, railroad, swish, totemandro- is a combining form meaning “male,” used in the formation of compound words. Otherwords that use the affix andro- include: androcracy, androgyne, andrology, androphore, androsterone; -genous is a suffix of adjectives corresponding to nouns with stems in -gen. Other words that use the affix -genous include: endogenous, epigenous, erogenous, isogenous, terrigenous