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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Producer: androgen.
  2. n. One that is produced: phosgene.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A producer of something, e.g. hydrogen

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen.
  2. A suffix meaning produced, generated.

Etymologies

  1. French -gène, from Greek -genēs, born; see genə- in Indo-European roots.

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