organophyly

== English == === Etymology === Simplified learned borrowing from German Organophylogenie, itself from organo- +‎ Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of organo- +‎ phylogeny to organo- (“biological tissue”) +‎ -phyly (“tribehood”). === Noun === organophyly (uncountable) (historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) The direct study of the evolution of the forms of biological organs and systems of organs rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation. ==== Antonyms ==== organogeny ==== Hypernyms ==== morphophyly ==== Coordinate terms ==== histophyly blastophyly cormophyly === References === “organophyly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.