单词 | endogen |
释义 | endogenn. Botany. 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 n. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1845 A. Gray Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 2) i. iv. 71 These stems are said to exhibit the Endogenous structure or growth; and the plants of that division are called Endogenous Plants, or Endogens. 1867 J. Martineau Ess. II. 167 Man is still definable as a mere intellectual endogen. 1872 H. Macmillan True Vine iii. 76 The peculiarity of the endogen is to be simple and unbranched in all its parts. Derivatives endogeˈneity n. [badly formed after homogeneity] the fact of being endogenous adj. ΚΠ 1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 234 What is called Endogeneity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1835 |
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