Associations to the word «Homoplasy»

Wiktionary

HOMOPLASY, noun. A correspondence between the parts or organs of different species acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky