cormogeny
nounEtymology Learned borrowing from German Cormogenie, itself from Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós) + -genie; equivalent to Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “tree-trunk”) + -geny (“origin”). By surface analysis, cormo- + -geny.
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Biology, Natural sciences Historical, Rare, Usually The study of the evolution of the forms of nationalities, ethnicities, races, etc. by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.
Theory of recapitulation
- Antonyms
- cormophyly
- Hypernyms
- morphogeny
- Coordinate terms
- histogeny, organogeny, blastogeny