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What does epigene mean?

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Adjective
  1. (crystallography) foreign; unusual; not natural to the substance in which it was found.
  2. (mineralogy) Of or pertaining to the region just below the surface of the earth.
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Crosscutting relationships between these re-exposed and tilted peneplains and a third peneplain, an epigene and horizontal plain with residual hills, demonstrate that the latter is younger and thus of post-Cretaceous age.
But it is only a depraved taste that can prefer such an epigene to the fresh desert-music of Imr-al-Kais.
Thus, we have constructed a hereditary unit of a specific kind, namely, a two-component stationary epigene with preset properties.

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