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-genous
- a suffix of adjectives corresponding to nouns with stems in -gen: erogenous .
-genous
combining form
- yielding or generating
androgenous
erogenous
- generated by or issuing from
endogenous
Word History and Origins
Origin of -genous1
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.
Pure-bred dogs, in particular, have been rendered highly genetically consistent to achieve a homogenous appearance and behaviour.
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.
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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