The story
- German · learned borrowing fromPhysiophylogenie
- English todayphysiophyly
Simplified learned borrowing from German Physiophylogenie, itself from physio- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of physio- + phylogeny to physio- (“nature”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).
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