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