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Webster 1913 Edition

Homophyly

Ho-moph′y-ly

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Noun.
[
Homo-
+ Gr. [GREEK] a clan.]
(Biol.)
That form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting.
Haeckel.

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