English Explanatory Dictionary

phylogeny

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.
  2. A phylogenetic diagram.
  3. The historical development of a human social or racial group.
  4. The historical development of any thing, idea, etc.

Pronunciation

/faɪˈlɒd͡ʒəni/ /faɪˈlɑd͡ʒəni/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Neøn-phylogeny.wav

Word forms

phylogeny phylogenies

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

phylogenesis

Related words

phylogenetics phylogenic phylesis ontogeny philoxenia

Derived words

blastophyly cophylogeny cormophyly cytophylogeny geophylogeny histophyly macrophylogeny megaphylogeny monophylogeny morphophyly ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny organophyly phylogenist physiophyly polyphylogeny subphylogeny
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