blastophyly en · NOUN
Etymology
Simplified learned borrowing from German Blastophylogenie, itself from blasto- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of blasto- + phylogeny to blasto- (“biological organs”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).
Meanings
- (historical, qualifier:theory of recapitulation, rare, uncountable) The direct study of the evolution of the forms of entire individuals rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.
Antonyms
Coordinates
organophyly · cormophyly · histophyly