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- Ancient Greek · derived fromτέκτων“a carpenter”
- English todaytectology
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekτέκτων all →
tectonictekton
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A Haeckelian division of morphology; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual. Full definition →
Ancient Greekτέκτων all →
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