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morphophyly

morphophyly noun: the direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.

Noun

morphophyly (uncountable)

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

Antonyms of morphophyly

Origin of morphophyly

Simplified learned borrowing from German Morphophylogenie, itself from morph- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of morpho- + phylogeny to morpho- (“shape”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).

Questions about morphophyly

What does morphophyly mean?
Morphophyly means the direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.
What part of speech is morphophyly?
Morphophyly is a noun.

Words near morphophyly in the dictionary

  1. morphophonological
  2. morphophonologically
  3. morphophonologist
  4. morphophonologists
  5. morphophonology
  6. morphophyly
  7. morphophysiological
  8. morphophysiologically
  9. morphophysiology
  10. morphoplasm
  11. morphoplasmic

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