homoplasyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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”).

名詞

homoplasy (countable and uncountable, plural homoplasies)

1. (evolutionary theory) A correspondence between the parts or organs of different species acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence.
2. (textual criticism) A correspondence between variants in different versions of texts acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence.

反意語

• homology

関連する語

• hemiplasy
• homoplasic
• homoplasious
• homoplastic

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