English Explanatory Dictionary

morphophyly

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

morphophyly

Etymology

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

Antonyms

physiophyly morphogeny
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