In bot.: Of or pertaining to the class of endogens; growing or proceeding from within: as, endogenous trees or plants; endogenous growth.Originating within; internal; specifically, formed within another body, as spores within a sporangium.In anat.: Same as autogenous.Inclosed in a common cavity of the matrix, as cartilage-cells.In geology, formed within a mass of rock or even within the earth itself: especially employed to describe the effects, in contact-metamorphism, produced in the intrusive rock itself, as distinguished from those in the walls.