Exogenous Plants, or EXOGENS, a term applied to dicotyledons by Lindley to express an erroneous view of the difference in the mode of stem-thickening from that of monocotyledons, and now wholly disused by botanists. See DICOTYLEDONS, also BARK, CAMBIUM, MONOCOTYLEDONS.
Exogenous Plants
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 501
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