Definitions for exogenous

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exogenous ex·og·e·nous

Spelling: [ek-soj-uh-nuh s]

IPA: /ɛkˈsɒdʒ ə nəs/

Exogenous is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in exogenous (eegnoosux).

Definitions for exogenous

adjective

1. originating from outside; derived externally.
2. Botany. (of plants, as the dicotyledons) having stems that grow by the addition of an annual layer of wood to the outside beneath the bark. pertaining to plants having such stems. belonging to the exogens.
3. Pathology. (of a disease) externally caused rather than resulting from conditions within the organism.
4. Biochemistry. of or noting the metabolic assimilation of proteins or other metabolites, the elimination of nitrogenous catabolites being in direct proportion to the amount of metabolites taken in.
5. Geology. exogenetic (def 1).

Origin of exogenous

First recorded in 1820-30; exo- + -gen + -ous

Examples for exogenous

Heart-wood, the older or matured wood of exogenous trees, 142.

We have in the botanical world the exogenous and the endogenous tree.

Yes, the record of the 2000s looks better if you treat the bust as some kind of exogenous event caused by overbearing government.

This is exogenous growth, or outside-growing, as the name denotes.

But in that case, you also have to treat the real-estate bubble as an exogenous event.

But they are present in all exogenous woods, and can readily be seen with the microscope.

Opposed to exogenous structures (see also Branching and Root).

In botany, the white and softer parts of the wood of exogenous plants, lying between the inner bark and the heartwood.

The exogenous and endogenous hydatids may coexist in the same bearer.

Most of the trees with which we have to do are of the exogenous type.