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[syn: dicot, dicotyledon, magnoliopsid, exogen]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Exogen \Ex"o*gen\, n. [Exo- + -gen: cf. F. exog[`e]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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
exogen
n 1: flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by
deposit on its outside [syn: dicot, dicotyledon,
magnoliopsid, exogen]