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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. From Ancient Greek -γενής (genēs, "producer of") (Wiktionary)
  2. French -gène, from Greek -genēs, born; see genə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. -gen
  2. Gen-Y
  3. Abraham
  4. X-XI
  5. Richmond
  6. benediction
  7. Jacob
  8. deluge
  9. Hamite
  10. carcino-
  11. boulangism
  1. noachidæ
  2. plastical
  3. protevangelium
  4. amblypomacentrus
  5. Cagliari's
  6. NIM_DELETE
  7. Halleck
  8. brainiac
  9. ark
  10. artotyrite
  11. bdellium
  1. Gene
  2. koppite
  3. Longstreet
  4. Tupelo
  5. Tippecanoe
  6. Veracruz
  7. Saint-Mihiel
  8. Saratoga
  9. Sharpsburg
  10. Sitting Bull
  11. Stony Point
  1. Crazy Horse
  2. Gaullism
  3. Virginia
  4. abbreviation
  5. Steuben
  6. Pope
  7. Grant
  8. Lee
  9. Thames
  10. Moabite
  11. shrapnel
  1. -some
  2. xylo-
  3. babel
  4. blood
  5. Canaanite
  6. -genous
  7. grove
  8. Hamitic
  9. he
  10. Ishmaelite
  11. know
  1. metaphor
  2. middle
  3. say
  4. trimes

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Words tagged ‘-gen’

  1. allergen
  2. androgen
  3. angiogenesis
  4. aquagenic
  5. autogenic
  6. carbogen
  7. carcinogen
  8. caseinogen
  9. chromogenic
  10. collagen
  11. comedogenic
  12. congener
  13. congenial
  14. congenital
  15. degenerate
  1. dysgenesis
  2. endogenous
  3. engender
  4. entomogenous
  5. erogenous
  6. exogenous
  7. gender
  8. genealogy
  9. generation
  10. generic
  11. generous
  12. genioplasty
  13. genitive
  14. genius
  15. genocide
  1. genus
  2. glucogenic
  3. gluconeogenesis
  4. glycogen
  5. heterogenous
  6. homogenous
  7. hydrogen
  8. hypoallergenic
  9. immunogen
  10. imogene
  11. ingenuous
  12. intergenic
  13. ketogenic
  14. lachrymogenic
  15. listeria monocytogenes
  1. mammogenic
  2. mitogen
  3. mucinogen
  4. mutagen
  5. mutagenesis
  6. myogenic
  7. ontogeny
  8. orogeny
  9. osteogenic
  10. parthenogenesis
  11. pathogen
  12. pathogenesis
  13. pepsinogen
  14. phosgene
  15. photocarcinogenic
  1. photogenic
  2. photomutagen
  3. phyllochromogen
  4. phylogenetic
  5. proangiogenic
  6. progenitor
  7. progeny
  8. proteinogenic
  9. regenerate
  10. septuagenarian
  11. spasmogenic
  12. thermogenesis
  13. transgene
  14. vasculogenesis
  15. zymogen

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