a. [mod. f. Gr. ἄνω upwards + -γεν-ης produced + -IC.] Developed or growing upwardly or inwardly.
1878. Lawrence, Cotta’s Rocks Class., 383. Hardinger has proposed the term catogenic, in contradistinction to the anogenic transmutations which proceed from the exterior towards the interior, under the influences of air and water.
