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- German · learned borrowing fromBlastophylogenie
- English todayblastophyly
Simplified learned borrowing from German Blastophylogenie, itself from blasto- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of blasto- + phylogeny to blasto- (“biological organs”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.