Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In geology, noting crystalline or fire-formed rocks, in contradistinction to deuterogenic, which notes those formed from them by mechanical action.
- In botany, noting those intercellular spaces of plants which are formed when the tissues begin to differentiate. Compare hysterogenic, lysigenous, sehizogenic.
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“His mind was essentially what the geologists would call 'a tertiary formation; 'theirs were' protogenic. ”
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
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