(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:18:08

Mor"pho*phy`ly (?), n. [Gr. form + a clan.] Biol.

The tribal history of forms; that part of phylogeny which treats of the tribal history of forms, in distinction from the tribal history of functions.

Haeckel.

 

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