histophyly

English

Etymology

Simplified learned borrowing from German Histophylogenie, itself from histo- +‎ Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of histo- +‎ phylogeny to histo- (“biological tissue”) +‎ -phyly (“tribehood”).

Noun

histophyly (uncountable)

(historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) The direct study of the evolution of the forms of biological cells and tissues rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.^[1]

Antonyms

histogeny

Hypernyms

morphophyly

Coordinate terms

References

“histophyly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

^ Ernst Haeckel (1874) “Das Grundgesetz der organischen Entwickelung” (chapter I), in Anthropogenie; oder, Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen. Gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche Vorträge über die Grundzüge der Menschlichen. Keimes- und Stammes-geschichte, volume 1, page 18; translated as “The Fundamental Law of the Evolution of Organisms”, in The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontophyly and Phylophyly. From the German of Ernst Haeckel., 1897, page 24.

[haeckel-1] Ernst Haeckel (1874) “Das Grundgesetz der organischen Entwickelung” (chapter I), in Anthropogenie; oder, Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen. Gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche Vorträge über die Grundzüge der Menschlichen. Keimes- und Stammes-geschichte, volume 1, page 18; translated as “The Fundamental Law of the Evolution of Organisms”, in The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontophyly and Phylophyly. From the German of Ernst Haeckel., 1897, page 24.

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