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-gen  suff.  
1.
A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen.
2.
A suffix meaning produced, generated; as, exogen.





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"-gen" Quotes from Famous Books



... Columbus discovered America a powerful tribe called Otne-yar-heh, that is, Stone Giants, who were ravenous cannibals, overran the country, and nearly exterminated the inhabitants. These Stone Giants practiced, themselves in rolling on the sand; by this means their bodies became hard. Then Tas-enyawa-gen, the Holder of the Heavens, came to earth as a giant, and being made their chief, led them into a hollow, where he overwhelmed them with rocks. Only one escaped to the far North. The reader will recognize in these the Chenoos, or ...
— The Algonquin Legends of New England • Charles Godfrey Leland


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