morphophyly
The English word “morphophyly” has 1 meaning listed here.
noun
- The direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.
Etymology
Simplified learned borrowing from German Morphophylogenie, itself from morph- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of morpho- + phylogeny to morpho- (“shape”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).
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