morphogeny

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Etymology

From morpho- +‎ -geny.

Noun

morphogeny (usually uncountable, plural morphogenies)

  1. (biology) History of the evolution of forms; that part of ontogeny that deals with the germ history of forms, distinguished from physiogeny.
    • 1874, Ernst Haeckel, The Evolution of Man:
      Morphogeny has long ago undertaken the study of the history of the evolution of forms

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