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Definition of Acrogenic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to flowerless plants (ferns or mosses) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem.
Definition of Acrogenic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acrogenic
Literary usage of Acrogenic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Applications: Being a by Jabez Hogg (1887)
"... are arranged in longitudinal rows; but in the acrogenic, or scalariform, in
which the vessels are generally angular, and present distinct facets, ..."
2. The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two by Hugh Miller (1871)
"... the oldest yet known, consist chiefly of spore-like bodies, which belonged,
says Dr Hooker, to Lycopodiaceae,—an order of the second or acrogenic class. ..."
3. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1885)
"acrogenic stems became endogenic, and some of these changed themselves into
exogenic, and thus throughout the long vista of geological ages plants produced ..."
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