morphophyly
nounEtymology Simplified learned borrowing from German Morphophylogenie, itself from morph- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of morpho- + phylogeny to morpho- (“shape”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).
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Biology, Natural sciences Historical, Rare The direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.
Theory of recapitulation
- Antonyms
- physiophyly, morphogeny
- Hypernyms
- tribal history
- Hyponyms
- histophyly, organophyly, blastophyly, cormophyly
- Coordinate terms
- physiophyly