Acrogenous

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Acrogenous \Ac*rog"e*nous\, a. (Bot.)
     Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous
     plant.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  acrogenous
       adj : pertaining to flowerless plants (ferns or mosses) in which
             growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem [syn: {acrogenic}]