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.^[1]

Antonyms

organogeny

Hypernyms

morphophyly

Coordinate terms

References

“organophyly”, 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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