"morphophyly" meaning in English

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    {
      "word": "physiophyly"
    },
    {
      "word": "morphogeny"
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "morpho- + phylogeny",
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    },
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        "2": "morpho-<gloss:shape>",
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      },
      "expansion": "morpho- (“shape”) + -phyly (“tribehood”)",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Simplified learned borrowing from German Morphophylogenie, itself from morph- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of morpho- + phylogeny to morpho- (“shape”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        },
        {
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          "name": "Biology",
          "orig": "en:Biology",
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        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "physiophyly"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "tribal history"
        }
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "histophyly"
        },
        {
          "word": "organophyly"
        },
        {
          "word": "blastophyly"
        },
        {
          "word": "cormophyly"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-morphophyly-en-noun-m4aX-BJE",
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "evolution",
          "evolution"
        ],
        [
          "form",
          "form"
        ],
        [
          "ontogenic",
          "ontogenic"
        ],
        [
          "recapitulation",
          "recapitulation"
        ],
        [
          "Ernst Haeckel",
          "w:Ernst Haeckel"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "theory of recapitulation",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) The direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "rare",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "morphophyly"
}

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    {
      "word": "physiophyly"
    },
    {
      "word": "morphogeny"
    }
  ],
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      "word": "physiophyly"
    }
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    },
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      "expansion": "morpho- (“shape”) + -phyly (“tribehood”)",
      "name": "af"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Simplified learned borrowing from German Morphophylogenie, itself from morph- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of morpho- + phylogeny to morpho- (“shape”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).",
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  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "tribal history"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "word": "histophyly"
    },
    {
      "word": "organophyly"
    },
    {
      "word": "blastophyly"
    },
    {
      "word": "cormophyly"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with rare senses",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
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      "glosses": [
        "The direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "evolution",
          "evolution"
        ],
        [
          "form",
          "form"
        ],
        [
          "ontogenic",
          "ontogenic"
        ],
        [
          "recapitulation",
          "recapitulation"
        ],
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          "Ernst Haeckel",
          "w:Ernst Haeckel"
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        "(historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) The direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation."
      ],
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        "historical",
        "rare",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
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        "natural-sciences"
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  "word": "morphophyly"
}