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