English Explanatory Dictionary

histophyly

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

histophyly

Etymology

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

Antonyms

histogeny
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