Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Growing on or out of the earth: as, epigeous plants.
- Borne above ground in germination, as the cotyledons of beans, etc. Also epigeal, epigean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Same as
epigæous .
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- adjective Growing on, or close to, the ground.
Etymologies
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It is a short, unattractive tree, with epigeous branches spreading out in a straggling manner.
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Variant of epigeal. Contrast with hypogeous/hypogeal.
October 15, 2009
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Railroad telegraph shorthand for "Will report as soon as examination is completed". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 22, 2013