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Definition of Acrogen
1. Noun. Any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem.
Definition of Acrogen
1. n. A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia.
Definition of Acrogen
1. Noun. (biology) any flowerless plant whose growth takes place at the tip of the main stem, especially the cryptogam ferns ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Acrogen
1. a plant growing at the apex only [n -S]
Medical Definition of Acrogen
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acrogen
Literary usage of Acrogen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1837)
"... this acrogen being made up entirely of vesicular (cellular) tissue, and
exhibiting no divergence when divided. But this is very far, I conceive, ..."
2. Supplemental Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act by Herbert Confield Lust (1917)
"... consigning instructions compelled it to pay illegal and unreasonable demurrage
charges on a carload of coal shipped from acrogen, Ky., to Churubusco. ..."
3. Geology for general readers: A Series of Popular Sketches in Geology and by David Page (1870)
"... from acrogen to endogen, and from endogen to exogen;* from invertebrate to
vertebrate, from cold-blooded water- breathers to warm-blooded air-breathers, ..."
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