Homophyly

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Homophyly \Ho*moph"y*ly\, n. [Homo- + Gr. ? a clan.] (Biol.)
     That form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic
     homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic
     basis is wanting. --Haeckel.
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