cormophyly
nounEtymology Simplified learned borrowing from German Cormophylogenie, itself from Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós) + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós) + phylogeny to Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “tree-trunk”) + -phyly (“tribehood”). By surface analysis, cormo- + -phyly.
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Biology, Natural sciences Historical, Rare The direct study of the evolution of the forms of nationalities, ethnicities, races, etc. rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.
Theory of recapitulation
- Antonyms
- cormogeny
- Hypernyms
- morphophyly
- Coordinate terms
- histophyly, organophyly, blastophyly