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ac·ro·gen

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–noun Botany.

a flowerless plant growing and producing its reproductive structures at the apex only, as ferns and mosses.

[Origin: 1835–45; acro- + -gen

]

—Related forms

ac·ro·gen·ic

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a·crog·e·nous·ly, adverb

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acrogen
noun
any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem

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Acrogen

Ac"ro*gen\, n. [Gr. ? extreme, high + -gen.] Acrogen \Ac"ro*gen\, n. [Gr. 'a`kros extreme, high + -gen.] (Bot.) A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia.

The Age of Acrogens (Geol.), the age of coal plants, or the carboniferous era.

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