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单词 phylo-
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phylo-comb. form

Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element and vowels may be reduced accordingly.
Forms: Before a vowel also phyl-
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German phylo-.
Etymology: < German phylo- (in Phylogenesis phylogenesis n., Phylogenie phylogeny n.) < Phylum phylum n. + -o- -o- connective. Compare ancient Greek ϕυλο-, combining form (in e.g. ϕυλοβασιλεύς king chosen from each phyle, ϕυλοκρινεῖν to make distinctions of tribe). Compare scientific Latin phylo-, French phylo-, German phylo-.Earliest in loans from German (phylogeny n., phylogenesis n.) in the second half of the 19th cent. English formations are found from the second half of the 19th cent. Combining with second elements ultimately of Greek origin.
Forming chiefly scientific terms with sense ‘of or relating to a genealogical or evolutionary group or lineage’.
phylocycle n.
Brit. /ˈfʌɪlə(ʊ)ˌsʌɪkl/
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U.S. /ˈfaɪləˌsaɪk(ə)l/
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/ˈfaɪloʊˌsaɪk(ə)l/
Biology rare (in some forms of recapitulation theory) the course of the evolutionary development of a group or taxon, regarded as analogous to the life of an organism.
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1893 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 26 109 It is proposed to use..phylocycle or phylocyclon for [the cycle] of the phylum.
1893 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 26 124 Possibility of the simultaneous origin of phylocycles discussed.
phylocyclic adj. Biology Obsolete rare of or relating to a phylocycle.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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c1904 Encycl. Dict. Suppl. 505/1 Phylocyclic.
phylonepionic adj. Biology Obsolete rare (in the theories of A. Hyatt and others) relating to or designating an early stage in the evolutionary development of a lineage of organisms, supposed to correspond to the nepionic stage of ontogeny (cf. phylogerontic adj.).
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1893 A. Hyatt Carboniferous Cephalopods in E. T. Dumble Fourth Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Texas 389 Those coming nearer in time and structure may correspond to the nepionic and be designated as phylonepionic.
phylopterous adj. [ < phylo- comb. form + -pterous comb. form , after scientific Latin Phyloptera (A. S. Packard in Third Rep. U.S. Entomol. Commission (1883) xi. 287)] Zoology Obsolete rare of or relating to a proposed superorder Phyloptera of insects with incomplete metamorphosis and biting mouthparts, including Neuroptera (in a broad sense), ‘ Pseudoneuroptera’, Orthoptera, and a number of smaller orders.
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1883 A. S. Packard in Amer. Naturalist 17 933 Pseudoneuroptera.—This is the most heterogeneous order or assemblage of Phylopterous insects.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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