morphogeny
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
morphogeny (usually uncountable, plural morphogenies)
- (biology) History of the evolution of forms; that part of ontogeny that deals with the germ history of forms, distinguished from physiogeny.
- 1874, Ernst Haeckel, The Evolution of Man:
- Morphogeny has long ago undertaken the study of the history of the evolution of forms
Translations[edit]
history of the evolution of forms; that part of ontogeny that deals with the germ history of forms, distinguished from physiogeny
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References[edit]
- “morphogeny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.