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-genous

  1. a suffix of adjectives corresponding to nouns with stems in -gen: erogenous .


-genous

combining form

  1. yielding or generating

    androgenous

    erogenous

  2. generated by or issuing from

    endogenous

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -genous1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of -genous1

from -gen + -ous
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Example Sentences

Mr Hendra is now technical director at Genous, a firm that gives advice to homeowners on how to make their properties more energy efficient.

From BBC

Pure-bred dogs, in particular, have been rendered highly genetically consistent to achieve a homo­genous appearance and behaviour.

From Nature

At a UN summit last September, a host of countries joined businesses, environmental groups and indi­genous organizations in signing the New York Declaration on Forests, which calls for a halving of deforestation by 2020 and to end it by 2030.

From Nature

Et cil de la tor qui le véoient en sont tuit esbahï, ne il n'i a nul ne nule qui saiche veroiement qui il est; mès qu'il voient qu'il traïne pardesus l'espée trenchant à la force des braz et à l'enpaignement des genouz; si ne remaint pas por les filz de fer que des piez et des mains et des genous ne saille li sanz.

Thus genos does not form the genitive genesos, like the Latin genus, genesis or generis, but geneos = genous.

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