phylogeny
2 synonyms for phylogeny, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — The evolutionary history of a group of living things, such as a species.
Synonyms
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Etymology
Borrowed from German Phylogenie, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866 as a neologism made to look as though borrowed from a Classical Greek word φυλογένεια (phulogéneia), itself built from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, "tribe, genus, species") plus -γένεια (-géneia, "-geny (generation, production)"); equivalent to phylo- plu...
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