- yielding or generating: androgenous, erogenous
- generated by or issuing from: endogenous
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-genous,
- a suffix of adjectives corresponding to nouns with stems in -gen: erogenous.
- -gen + -ous
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-genous adj combining form
'-genous' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
erogenous
- amphigenous
- androgenous
- ascogenous
- cnidogenous
- ectogenous
- endogenous
- epigenous
- genic
- hematogenous
- heterogenous
- homogenous
- indologenous
- isogenous
- keratogenous
- lithogenous
- monogenous
- mycogenous
- pleurogenous
- pyrogenous
- terrigenous
- urogenous
- schizogenous
- spermatogenous
- sporogenous