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histophyly

histophyly noun: the direct study of the evolution of the forms of biological cells and tissues rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.

Noun

histophyly (uncountable)

  1. (historical, rare, theory of recapitulation) The direct study of the evolution of the forms of biological cells and tissues rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.

Antonyms of histophyly

Origin of histophyly

Simplified learned borrowing from German Histophylogenie, itself from histo- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of histo- + phylogeny to histo- (“biological tissue”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).

Questions about histophyly

What does histophyly mean?
Histophyly means the direct study of the evolution of the forms of biological cells and tissues rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.
What part of speech is histophyly?
Histophyly is a noun.

Words near histophyly in the dictionary

  1. histopathophysiological
  2. histophagous
  3. histophatology
  4. histophenotype
  5. histophenotypes
  6. histophyly
  7. histophysiologic
  8. histophysiological
  9. histophysiology
  10. histoplanimetric
  11. histoplanimetry

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