homoplasy

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A correspondence between the parts or organs of different species acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence. countable,uncountable
  2. A correspondence between variants in different versions of texts acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence. countable,uncountable

词形变化

homoplasies plural

词汇关系

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *somHós
Proto-Hellenic *homós
Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós)der.
English homo-
Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō
Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō?
Ancient Greek πλάσσω (plássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
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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