Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phylogenesis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: phy-lo-ge-n-e-sis
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Evolutionary development of a species.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from German Phylogenese, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866. By surface analysis, phylo- + -genesis.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Phylogenese

Usage

Inflected Forms

phylogeneses (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

ontogenesis

Synonyms

phylogeny evolution organic evolution

Questions

What does phylogenesis mean?: Evolutionary development of a species.
Where does phylogenesis come from?: It is traced to German.

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