capsuligenous etymology

English word capsuligenous comes from English capsule, English -genous (Producing or yielding.)

Detailed word origin of capsuligenous

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
capsule English (eng) (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form. (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.. (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.. (chemistry, dated) A small clay saucer for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.. (dialectal, UK, [...]
-genous English (eng) Producing or yielding.
capsuligenous English (eng) That gives rise to capsules.

Words with the same origin as capsuligenous

Descendants of capsule
Spansule acapsular caplet capsular antigen capsular cataract capsular contracture capsular ligament capsular polysaccharide capsular space capsulate capsuliferous capsuliform capsulise capsulitis capsulize encapsulization gelcap incapsulate tabsule
Descendants of -genous
Assyrogenous Grecogenous alkaligenous anautogenous ectogenous encephalitogenous endogeneity endogeny exogenous gelatigenous hematogenous monogenous myelogenous myogenous peptogenous phyllogenous schizogenous skeletogenous spiculigenous thermogenous xenogenous xylogenous zoogenous zymogenous