n. [ Exo- + -gen: cf. F. exogène. ] (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 ]
a. (Biol.) Arising or growing from without; exogenous. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. same as exogenous. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
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Exogenous aneurism (Med.),