a. Bot. [f. ACROGEN + -OUS.] Of the nature of acrogens; increasing in growth from the extremity of a stem.
1848. Dana, Zoophytes, iv. § 69. 68. Polyps have an acrogenous growth, and bud periodically as they grow upward.
1866. Berkeley in Treas. Bot., 14. A few acrogenous Liverworts have the habit of Lichens, but differ totally in structure.
