exogen

Other forms of exogen

plural

exogens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about exogen

What does exogen mean?

exogen means "flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside".

How many syllables are in exogen?

exogen has 3 syllables and divides as ex-o-gen under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for exogen?

Close synonyms include dicot, dicotyledon, magnoliopsid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is exogen a common word?

exogen is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.