Morphophyly

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation. historical, rare, uncountable

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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