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phylogeny

UK/faɪˈlɒd͡ʒəni//faɪˈlɑd͡ʒəni/

phylogeny noun: the evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.

Noun

phylogeny (countable and uncountable, plural phylogenies)

  1. (systematics) The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.
    • It was a bestiary more than a hundred years old, its entries organised by a quaintly outdated phylogeny and illustrated with hand-tinted plates.2022, Paul McAuley, Beyond the Burn Line, Gollancz, page 43
  2. (informal, systematics) A phylogenetic diagram.
    • Holonym: tree of life
  3. The historical development of a human social or racial group.
    • Understanding the phylogeny of this musical group helps us understand its music.
  4. The historical development of any thing, idea, etc.
    • Indeed, in a recent review article, Mithen (2009) traces the phylogeny of human communication […]2010, The Journey of Child Development, →ISBN

phylogeny meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Tagalog

phylogeny in Tamil

சாதிவரலாறு, இன வளர்ச்சி வரலாறு, தொகுதிவரலாறு, தோற்ற நெறி, சமுதாயப்பேச்சு, வரலாற்று மாற்றம்

phylogeny in Malayalam

വംശചരിത്രം

phylogeny in Tagalog

evolutionary history of an organism
lipmulaan

Examples of phylogeny in a sentence

  • The molecular phylogeny of Cibicides incldues a phialine lip near the aperature.
  • With reference to seedling stages the statement that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny must be made with great reserve.
  • Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny: individual evolution repeats species evolution.

All 11 example sentences with phylogeny

Synonyms of phylogeny

Forms of phylogeny

pluralphylogenies

Plural of phylogeny: phylogenies

Origin of phylogeny

Borrowed from German Phylogenie, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, a neologism created as if borrowed from a Classic Greek word φυλογένεια (phulogéneia), composed from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, genus, species”) + -γένεια (-géneia, “-geny (generation, production)”), equivalent to phylo- + -geny.

Words formed from phylogeny

Questions about phylogeny

What does phylogeny mean?
Phylogeny means the evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.
What is phylogeny in Tamil?
Phylogeny in Tamil is சாதிவரலாறு, இன வளர்ச்சி வரலாறு, தொகுதிவரலாறு. See Phylogeny meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is phylogeny?
Phylogeny is a noun.
How do you pronounce phylogeny?
Phylogeny is pronounced /faɪˈlɒd͡ʒəni/ (UK).
What is the plural of phylogeny?
The plural of phylogeny is phylogenies.

Words near phylogeny in the dictionary

  1. phylogenist
  2. phylogenists
  3. phylogenomic
  4. phylogenomically
  5. phylogenomics
  6. phylogeny
  7. phylogeographer
  8. phylogeographers
  9. phylogeographic
  10. phylogeographical
  11. phylogeographically

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: phylogeny (page history and authors); phylogeny (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); phylogeny (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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