Crossword-Solution: ENDOGEN
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| Endogen | n. | A plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. 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. The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and included all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc. See Exogen. |
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| Organism that grows from the inside | 1 answer |
| plant that increases in size by internal growth | 1 answer |
| SEED plant | 4 answers |
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Sentences with ENDOGEN (5)
The endogen in general use is the elai's, which is considered to supply a better and more delicate liquor than the raphia.
His grub, like that of his cousin, our English wire-worm, and his nearer cousin, the great wire-worm of the sugar-cane, eats into the pith and marrow of growing shoots; and as the palm, being an endogen, increases from within by one bud, and therefore by one shoot only, when that is eaten out nothing remains for the tree but to die.
For drink, the denizen of the high table-land find his favourite beverage--the rival of champagne--in the core of the gigantic aloe; while he of the tropic coast-land refreshes himself from the juice of another native endogen, the acrocomia palm.
Note: Endorhiza was proposed by Richard as a substitute for the term endogen, and exorhiza as a substitute for the term exogen; but they have not been generally adopted.
The remains of such as have been detected in the carboniferous rocks belong almost exclusively to the former class, the cryptogamiæ and endogenæ, while of the three hundred and upward of fossil species which have been described and figured, not more than ten, and some of these still of doubtful characters, can be regarded as of exogenous and true woody growth.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1991).