morphophyly

[医] 成形发育

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.

    历史 罕用 不可数 生物

词源

Simplified learned borrowing from German Morphophylogenie, itself from morph- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of morpho- + phylogeny to morpho- (“shape”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).

来源：wiktionary