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Meaning of HOMOPHYLY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ho*moph"y*ly\, n. [Homo- + Gr. ? 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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