Morphophyly

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

  Morphophyly \Mor"pho*phy`ly\, n. [Gr. morfh` form + ? a clan.]
     (Biol.)
     The tribal history of forms; that part of phylogeny which
     treats of the tribal history of forms, in distinction from
     the tribal history of functions. --Haeckel.
     [1913 Webster]