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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tribal history of forms; that branch of phylogeny, or tribal history, which treats of form alone, without reference to function, the tribal history of the latter being called
physiophyly .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
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