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homoplasy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ho-mo-plasy
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A correspondence between variants in different versions of texts acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Hellenic *homós Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós)der. English homo- Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō Proto-Hellenic *plát͏̌t͏̌ō? Ancient Greek πλάσσω (plássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Hellenic *-tis Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs) Ancient Greek -σις (-sis) Ancient Greek πλᾰ́σῐς (plắsĭs)der. New Latin -plasiabor. English -plasia English -plasy English homoplasy Coined by British zoologist Ray Lankester in 1870, from homo- + -plasy, formed from Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “similar, alike, the same”) and πλάσσω (plássō, “to shape, to mold”).

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Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

homoplasies (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

hemiplasy homoplasic homoplasious homoplast homoplastic

Antonyms

homology

Questions

What does homoplasy mean?
A correspondence between the parts or organs of different species acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence.
Where does homoplasy come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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