(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:51:49

-gen (?). [(1) From Gr. -gen-, from the same root as ge`nos race, stock (see Genus). (2) From Gr. suffix -genh`s born. Cf. F. -gene.]

1.

A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen.

2.

A suffix meaning produced, generated; as, exogen.

 

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