blastophyly
nounEtymology Simplified learned borrowing from German Blastophylogenie, itself from blasto- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of blasto- + phylogeny to blasto- (“biological organs”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).
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Biology, Natural sciences Historical, Rare The direct study of the evolution of the forms of entire individuals rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.
Theory of recapitulation
- Antonyms
- blastogeny
- Hypernyms
- morphophyly
- Coordinate terms
- histophyly, organophyly, cormophyly