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noun
The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: systematics
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noun
A phylogenetic diagram.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, informal, uncountable
Qualifier: systematics
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noun
The historical development of a human social or racial group.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
The historical development of any thing, idea, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: evolution, organic evolution, phylogenesis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: organic process, biological process
Narrower terms: anamorphosis, anamorphism, anthropogenesis, anthropogeny, emergent evolution, macroevolution, microevolution, speciation
History
Borrowed from German Phylogenie, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, a neologism created as if borrowed from a Classic Greek word φυλογένεια (phulogéneia), composed from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, genus, species”) + -γένεια (-géneia, “-geny (generation, production)”), equivalent to phylo- + -geny.
Across languages
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
