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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Produced or growing from within.
  2. adj. Originating or produced within an organism, tissue, or cell: endogenous secretions.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In bot.: Of or pertaining to the class of endogens; growing or proceeding from within: as, endogenous trees or plants; endogenous growth.
  2. Originating within; internal; specifically, formed within another body, as spores within a sporangium.
  3. In anat.: Same as autogenous.
  4. Inclosed in a common cavity of the matrix, as cartilage-cells.
  5. In geology, formed within a mass of rock or even within the earth itself: especially employed to describe the effects, in contact-metamorphism, produced in the intrusive rock itself, as distinguished from those in the walls. The common endogenous results are a dense or even felsitic or glassy texture due to the relatively quick chill.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. produced, originating or growing from within
  2. adj. of a disease, caused by factors within the body

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.
  2. adj. Originating from within; increasing by internal growth.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of or resembling an endogen
  2. adj. derived or originating internally

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  • bilby WeirdNET has mastered adjectival derivation. Jun 2, 2008

  • sonofgroucho ....and it's more extrovert twin "exogenous". Jan 7, 2007

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