'endogenic' definitions:
Definition of 'endogenic'
From: WordNet
adjective
adjective
Of rocks formed or occurring beneath the surface of the earth; "endogenic rocks are not clastic" [syn: endogenic, endogenetic]
Definition of 'endogenic'
From: GCIDE
- endogenetic \en`do*ge*net"ic\, endogenic \en`do*gen"ic\adj.
- 1. (Biol.) Relating to or arising from an internal process; same as endogenous.
- Syn: Syn. --. [WordNet 1.5
- 2. (Geol.) Relating to the interior of the earth; of or pertaining to a metamorphic process occurring within a planet. Opposed to exogenetic.
- Syn: endogenic. [PJC]