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9 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
originBorrowed from German Phylogenie, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, a neologism created as if borrowed from a Classic Greek word φυλογένεια (phulogéneia), composed from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, genus, species”) + -γένεια (-géneia, “-geny (generation, production)”), equivalent to phylo- + -geny.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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- phylon 14
- glyph 14
- phony 13
- phyle 13
- hyleg 12
- hype 12
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- holpen 11
- openly 11