exogen : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: exogen	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
exogen n flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside Synonym(s): dicot, dicotyledon, magnoliopsid, exogen
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exogen \Ex"o*gen\, n. [Exo- + -gen: cf. F. exog[8a]ne.] (Bot.) A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. {Endogen}. --Gray.