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- Ancient Greek · derived fromφυλή“clan”
- English todayhomophyly
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekφυλή all →
-phyly
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
homophyly
Today it means: That form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting. Full definition →
Ancient Greek φυλή