Ex-õg'e-noüs, a.
a. [See supra.]
- Growing by successive additions to the outside of the wood, between that and the bark, as the maple, the elm, and the like; a new layer of growth being received each year, so that their number, as seen in a transverse section of the wood, indicates the age of the tree; dicotyledonous.
- (Anat.) Shooting out from any part, as an exogenous aneurism.