"phylogeny" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /faɪˈlɒd͡ʒəni/ [UK], /faɪˈlɑd͡ʒəni/ [Canada, US] Forms: phylogenies [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from German Phylogenie, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, a neologism created as if borrowed from a Classic Greek word φυλογένεια (phulogéneia), composed from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, genus, species”) + Ancient Greek -γένεια (-géneia, “-geny (generation, production)”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|de|Phylogenie}} German Phylogenie, {{l|grc|φυλογένεια}} φυλογένεια (phulogéneia), {{der|en|grc|φῦλον||tribe, genus, species}} Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, genus, species”), {{der|en|grc|-γένεια||-geny (generation, production)}} Ancient Greek -γένεια (-géneia, “-geny (generation, production)”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} phylogeny (countable and uncountable, plural phylogenies)
  1. (systematics) The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Taxonomy Translations (evolutionary history of an organism): filogènia [feminine] (Catalan), fylogeneze [feminine] (Czech), fylogenie [feminine] (Dutch), lajinkehitys (Finnish), phylogénie [feminine] (French), Phylogenie [feminine] (German), פִילוֹגֶנֶזָה [feminine] (Hebrew), törzsfejlődés [singular] (Hungarian), fíligineacht [feminine] (Irish), filogenesi (Italian), filogenia (Italian), kukuwhatanga (Maori), filogenia (Portuguese), filogenie [feminine] (Romanian), филоге́ния (filogénija) [feminine] (Russian), филогене́тика (filogenɛ́tika) [feminine] (Russian), filogénija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), filogenia [feminine] (Spanish), fylogeni [common-gender] (Swedish), lipmulaan (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-phylogeny-en-noun--Fm63QL0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -geny Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 2 6 24 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 67 2 6 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -geny: 76 4 4 16 Disambiguation of 'evolutionary history of an organism': 90 1 5 5
  2. (systematics, informal) A phylogenetic diagram. Tags: countable, informal, uncountable Categories (topical): Taxonomy
    Sense id: en-phylogeny-en-noun-9g~h1GO-
  3. The historical development of a human social or racial group. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-phylogeny-en-noun-SoAsNCKQ
  4. The historical development of any thing, idea, etc. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-phylogeny-en-noun-D5ChPI2D
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: phylogenesis Derived forms: cophylogeny, geophylogeny, macrophylogeny, ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny Related terms: phylogenetics, phylogenic, phylesis, ontogeny

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "evolutionary history of an organism",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "филоге́ния"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "filogenɛ́tika",
      "sense": "evolutionary history of an organism",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "филогене́тика"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "evolutionary history of an organism",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "filogénija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "evolutionary history of an organism",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "filogenia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "evolutionary history of an organism",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "fylogeni"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "evolutionary history of an organism",
      "word": "lipmulaan"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "phylogeny"
  ],
  "word": "phylogeny"
}

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