morphophyly en · NOUN
Etymology
Simplified learned borrowing from German Morphophylogenie, itself from morph- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of morpho- + phylogeny to morpho- (“shape”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).
Meanings
- (historical, qualifier:theory of recapitulation, rare, uncountable) The direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.