English Explanatory Dictionary

blastophyly

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The direct study of the evolution of the forms of entire individuals rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.

Word forms

blastophyly

Etymology

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

Antonyms

blastogeny
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