a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Different in nature or kind. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Amylum + -gen. ] (Chem.) That part of the starch granule or granulose which is soluble in water. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Amylum + genesis. ] The formation of starch. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to amylogen. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Forming starch; -- applied specif. to leucoplasts. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A teller of apologues. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to speak in defense of; &unr_; from + &unr_; speech, &unr_; to say, to speak. See Logic. ] Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay. “To speak in a subdued and apologetic tone.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way of apology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That branch of theology which defends the Holy Scriptures, and sets forth the evidence of their divine authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Astrology. ] 1. One who studies the stars; an astronomer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who practices astrology; one who professes to foretell events by the aspects and situation of the stars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A botanist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Chronologist. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology. [ 1913 Webster ]

That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December. John Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kormo`s trunk of a tree + E. phylogeny. ] (Biol.) The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals. Haeckel. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to the production of crystals; crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kry`stallos crystal + root of gi`gnesqai to be born. ] The science which pertains to the production of crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in demonology. R. North.

a. [ Gr. &unr_; double + the root of &unr_; to produce. ] Partaking of the nature of two bodies; producing two substances. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. One skilled in the antiquities of Egypt; a student of Egyptology. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Elogium. ] A panegyrical funeral oration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An etymologist. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A geologist.

n. [ Gr. "a`ls, "alo`s, salt + -gen: cf. F. halogène. ] (Chem.) An electro-negative element or radical, which, by combination with a metal, forms a haloid salt; especially, chlorine, fluorine, bromine, and iodine; sometimes, also cyanogen. See Chlorine family, under Chlorine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of a halogen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. horologe, orloge, timepiece, OF. horloge, orloge, oriloge, F. horloge, L. horologium, fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; hour + &unr_; to say, tell. See Hour, and Logic. ] 1. A servant who called out the hours. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An instrument indicating the time of day; a timepiece of any kind; a watch, clock, or dial. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An entomologist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Lodge. ] A lodge; a habitation. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. martyrologium: cf. F. martyrologe. ] A martyrology. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. myelo`s marrow + the root of gi`gnesqai to be born. ] (Physiol.) Derived from, or pertaining to, the bone marrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mythologist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in osteology; an osteologist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. fello`s cork + -gen. ] (Bot.) The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. L. philologus a man of letters, Gr. filo`logos, originally, fond of talking; hence, fond of learning and literature; fi`los loving + lo`gos speech, discourse. ] A philologist. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A phonologist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A phrenologist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to phylogenesis, or the evolutionary history of a type of organism. -- Phy*lo*ge*net"ic*al*ly adv. [1913 Webster]

{ } n. [ Gr. fy^lon race, tribe + E. genesis, or root of Gr. gi`gnesqai to be born. ] The history of genealogical development; the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.
Syn. -- evolution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A physiologist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sal salt + -gen. ] (Chem.) A halogen. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; young shoot or branch, frond + -gen. ] (Bot.) One of a large class or division of the vegetable kingdom, which includes those flowerless plants, such as fungi, algae, and lichens, that consist of a thallus only, composed of cellular tissue, or of a congeries of cells, or even of separate cells, and never show a distinction into root, stem, and leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A theologian. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Vitellus, and -gen. ] (Zool.) A gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in trematodes, turbellarians, and some other helminths. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Xylo- + -gen. ] (a) (Bot.) Nascent wood; wood cells in a forming state. (b) Lignin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A Zoologist. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]