Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Phylogeny.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, rare, uncountable
Qualifier: theory of recapitulation
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: germ history
Broader terms: biogeny
History
An overly literal learned borrowing from German Stammesgeschichte; ordinarily, Stamm would only be translated as tribe when used in its ethnographic sense.
