Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hypogene

Hypogene , adjective

[Prefix hypo- + the root of Greek gi`gnesqai to be born: compare French hypogène.]

(Geology) Formed or crystallized at depths beneath 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.