English Explanatory Dictionary

organophyly

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

organophyly

Etymology

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

Antonyms

organogeny
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