PHYLOGENY


Meaning of PHYLOGENY in English

-nē, -ni noun

( -es )

Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary phyl- + -geny

1. : the racial history of a specified kind of organism

2. : the evolution of a race or genetically related group of organisms (as a species, family, or order) as distinguished from the development of the individual organism — compare ontogeny

3. : the history or course of the development of an immaterial thing (as a word or custom)

we cannot hope phylogeny will explain the morphology of philosophies — W.P.Kent

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.