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Meaning of 'hypogene' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Hypogene [ a.]
- Formed or crystallized at depths the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene.

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