endogen

American  

[en-duh-juhn] / ˈɛn dəˌdʒən /

noun

plural

endogens

1. Botany. a plant that grows by adding to the interior of its stem, which has no bark and contains wood and pith not separated into distinct layers. Endogens are the same as monocotyledons. Contrasts with exogen.

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endogen British  

/ ˈɛndəʊˌdʒɛn /

noun

1. a former name for monocotyledon

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Other Word Forms

• endogenic adjective
• endogenization noun
• endogenize verb
• endogenous adjective
• endogenously adverb
• endogeny noun
• non-endogenous adjective
• semi-endogenous adjective

Example Sentences

From ground to high parapet the spaces between the columns were filled with lianas, unrelated big leaves, and the characteristic fronds of the endogens.

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There are plants normally of an intermediate character, while, to take exceptional instances, there are exogens with the leaves and flowers of endogens, and endogens whose outward organisation, at any rate, assimilates them to exogens.

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Smilax belongs to a transition class, partaking somewhat of the nature of endogen and of exogen.

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The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate.

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It is not till we arrive at the Cretaceous period that they begin to appear, sparingly at first, and only playing a conspicuous part, together with the palms and other endogens, in the Tertiary epoch.

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