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CULTIGEN
Definition of CULTIGEN
noun
A plant that has been deliberately altered or selected by humans, that is it has resulted from artificial rather than natural selection.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From culti(vated) + -gen, or from Latin cultus (“cultivated”) + gēns (“kind”). Coined by American botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1918.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CULTIGEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 114, 11 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 103, 31 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CULTIGEN starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CEGILNTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found CULTIGEN?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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