gen
Multiple Entries:gen -gen Gen.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gen /dʒɛn/ Brit. informal
▶noun information. ▶verb (gens, genning, genned) (gen someone up) provide someone with information.
■ (gen up on) find out about; learn about.
– origin Second World War (orig. in military use): perh. from general information.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-gen/ʤ(ə)n/
▶combining form
- 1 Chemistry denoting a substance that produces something: allergen.
- 2 Botany denoting a substance or plant that is produced: cultigen.
– origin via Fr. -gène from Gk genēs ‘-born, of a specified kind’, based on gignomai ‘be born, become’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Gen.
▶abbreviation
- 1 General.
- 2 Genesis (in biblical references).
'gen' also found in these Oxford entries:
anagen
- androgen
- antigen
- Ashkenazi
- collagen
- cultigen
- cyanogen
- epigene
- eugenics
- fig leaf
- forbid
- Gen.
- -gen
- gene
- -genic
- -genous
- -geny
- halogen
- helpmate
- hydrogen
- Ishmaelite
- Jacob's ladder
- land
- Methuselah
- mutagen
- Neogene
- nimrod
- nitrogen
- oestrogen
- olive branch
- onanism
- Palaeogene
- phosgene
- promised land
- serpent
- Sodom
- sodomy
- tree of knowledge
- tree of life
