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Webster 1913 Edition


Organogen

Or-gan′o-gen

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Noun.
[
Organo-
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-gen
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(Chem.)
A name given to any one of the four elements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, which are especially characteristic ingredients of organic compounds; also, by extension, to other elements sometimes found in the same connection; as sulphur, phosphorus, etc.