Associations to the word «Phylogeny»

Wiktionary

PHYLOGENY, noun. (systematics) The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.
PHYLOGENY, noun. (systematics) (informal) A phylogenetic diagram.
PHYLOGENY, noun. The historical development of a human social or racial group.
PHYLOGENY, noun. The historical development of any thing, idea, etc.

Dictionary definition

PHYLOGENY, noun. (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats