endogenous Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective of or resembling an endogen
  2. adjective derived or originating internally
    endogenic.

WordNet

En*dog"e*nous adjective
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.
  2. (Biol.) Originating from within; increasing by internal growth.

Webster 1913