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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Exogenous.
- adjective Able to live and develop outside a host, as certain pathogenic microorganisms do.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Originating or developed outside of the host; externally parasitic: opposed to endogenous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology, of a pathogenic organism Able to
survive outside of itshost
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