Endogenous: alternatives and connections

The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.

Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth.

Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant.

Increasing in size by growth on all sides, as the lichens.

the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride's father’

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an…

The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majest…

To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.

The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of…

The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.

A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the c…

To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.

The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.

With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performa…

The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets.

The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury.

A plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, ir…

A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, a…