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单词 -phyly
释义

-phylycomb. form

Primary stress is either attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this combining form or retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element. Vowels may be reduced accordingly. See e.g. polyphyly n.
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Morphophylie.
Etymology: < German -phylie (in e.g. Morphophylie morphophyly n.) < Hellenistic Greek -ϕυλία (in e.g. ὁμοϕυλία : see homophyly n. at homo- comb. form 1) < ancient Greek ϕυλή tribe (see phyle n., phylum n.) + -ία -y suffix3.First recorded in a series of terms (blastophyly n. at blasto- comb. form , cormophyly n. at cormo- comb. form , histophyly n. at histo- comb. form , homophyly n. at homo- comb. form 1, morphophyly n., organophyly n., physiophyly n.) in the 1879 translation of Haeckel Anthropogenie (ed. 3) 1877 , where the first German ed. of 1874 had terms in -phylogenie (as Organophylogenie , Physiophylogenie , etc.; compare phylogeny n.). English formations are found from the early 20th cent., as polyphyly n., monophyly n. Compare phylo- comb. form, phyletic adj. Combining with first elements ultimately of Greek origin.
Biology.
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Forming nouns denoting processes or patterns of evolutionary origin, development, and divergence among living organisms.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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