exogenous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ex=og=e=nous

CIDE DICTIONARY

exogenous, a. 

•  derived from or originating outside; pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- the opposite of endogenous.  [1913 Webster]
•  Growing by addition to the exterior; growing by addition of a new external layer of cells on the surface just beneath the bark; -- of plants.  [1913 Webster]
•  Growing from previously ossified parts; -- opposed to autogenous.  Owen.  [1913 Webster]
•  caused by factors from outside the body, rather than from an abnormality of internal functions; -- of illness.  [PJC]
•  not synthesized within the organism; absorbed or assimilated from outside the organism.  [PJC]

Exogenous aneurism (Med.), an aneurism which is produced by causes acting from without, as from injury.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

exogenous, adj. Biol. growing or originating from outside.

Derivative

exogenously adv.

ROGET THESAURUS

exogenous

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.