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.
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Arising or growing from without; exogenous.
1. Pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- the opposite of endogenous.
2. Growing by addition to the exterior.
3. Growing from previously ossified parts; -- opposed to autogenous.
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