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