Epigene
- a. Formed originating on the surface of the earth; — opposed to hypogene; as, epigene rocks.
- a. Foreign; unnatural; unusual; — said of forms of crystals not natural to the substances in which they are found.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.