morphogeny

== English == === Etymology === Simplified learned borrowing from German Morphontogenie, itself from morpho- +‎ Ontogenie; equivalent to a reduction of morpho- +‎ ontogeny to morpho- (“shape”) +‎ -geny (“origin”). The simplification means that the term is also used to translate German Morphogenie, the distinction between Morphontogenie and Morphogenie not being made in English. === Noun === morphogeny (usually uncountable, plural morphogenies) (historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) The study of the evolution of forms by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny. ==== Antonyms ==== physiogeny morphophyly ==== Hypernyms ==== germ history ==== Hyponyms ==== histogeny organogeny blastogeny cormogeny ==== Coordinate terms ==== physiogeny ==== Translations ==== === References === “morphogeny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.