EXOGEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exogen mean? 

• EXOGEN (noun)
  The noun EXOGEN has 1 sense:

1. flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside

  Familiarity information: EXOGEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXOGEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

dicot; dicotyledon; exogen; magnoliopsid

Hypernyms ("exogen" is a kind of...):

angiosperm; flowering plant (plants having seeds in a closed ovary)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exogen"):

jiqui; Malpighia obovata (Cuban timber tree with hard wood very resistant to moisture)

acerola; barbados cherry; Malpighia glabra; Surinam cherry; West Indian cherry (tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries)

cyrilla family; Cyrilliaceae; family Cyrilliaceae; titi family (shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and small white flowers in racemes: genera Cyrilla and Cliftonia)

Holonyms ("exogen" is a member of...):

class Dicotyledonae; class Dicotyledones; class Magnoliopsida; Dicotyledonae; Dicotyledones; Magnoliopsida (comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae)

Derivation:

exogenic (derived or originating externally)