phylogeny
/faɪˈlɑd͡ʒəni/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It was a bestiary more than a hundred years old, its entries organised by a quaintly outdated phylogeny and illustrated with hand-tinted plates."
- "Holonym: tree of life"
- "Understanding the phylogeny of this musical group helps us understand its music."
- "Indeed, in a recent review article, Mithen (2009) traces the phylogeny of human communication […]"
Etymology
Borrowed 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: φῦλον
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /faɪˈlɑd͡ʒəni/
- British English: /faɪˈlɒd͡ʒəni/