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单词 -genous
释义

-genouscomb. form

Primary stress is attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly.
Etymology: < -gen comb. form + -ous suffix.
Forming adjectives with the meaning: ‘of, pertaining to, or relating to generation or production’; spec. (a) generating, producing, as alkaligenous adj., calcigenous adj., kaligenous adj., pathogenous adj., pyrogenous adj. 2; (b) generated, produced, originating in, as pyrogenous adj. 1 Cf. -genic comb. form.A number of these words are first (or solely) recorded in one of the 18th-cent. dictionaries of N. Bailey, as amnigenous, anguigenous, caprigenous, coeligenous, extragenous, ignigenous, lucigenous, martigenous, melligenous, rorigenous, rurigenous, serpentigenous, spinigenous.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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