Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PO-LYG'E-NOUS
PO-LYG'E-NOUS, a. [Gr. πολυς, many, and γενος, kind.]
Consisting of many kinds; as, a polygenous mountain, which is composed of strata of different species of stone. – Kirwan.
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