Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Similarity of structure between organs or parts, possibly of dissimilar function, that are related by common descent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sameness of nature or kind.
- noun In biology, descent from a common ancestor; blood-relationship among animals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Joint nature.
- noun (Biol.) The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede
homology by Lankester, who also usedhomoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the termhomoplasmy ). Thus, there ishomogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only inhomoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence of both groups from a univentricular ancestor.
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- noun biology Similarity in
structure , though of differentfunction , because ofgenetic relationships
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- noun (biology) similarity because of common evolution
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Lankester "homogeny;" [162] and (2) a relationship induced, not derived -- such as exists between parts closely similar in relative position, but with no genetic affinity, or only a remote one, as the homological relation between the chambers of the heart of a bat and those of a {159} bird, or the similar teeth of the thylacine and the dog before spoken of.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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Very frustrating to still be using a public school system essentially based on a model of homogeny, lowest common denominator and submission to authority.
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His studies of poetry, polyphonics, oral literature, storytelling, translation, mythology, homogeny, cultural ecology, literary criticism and typography all build upon this sense of basic connection and his thinking involves the work of poets, musicians and philosophers.
Book Awards 2009
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Korot sets fragmentary counterpoint against moments of textural and thematic homogeny, the pull of which is increased by the uniformity of the instrumentation.
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His studies of poetry, polyphonics, oral literature, storytelling, translation, mythology, homogeny, cultural ecology, literary criticism and typography all build upon this sense of basic connection and his thinking involves the work of poets, musicians and philosophers.
April 2008 2008
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His studies of poetry, polyphonics, oral literature, storytelling, translation, mythology, homogeny, cultural ecology, literary criticism and typography all build upon this sense of basic connection and his thinking involves the work of poets, musicians and philosophers.
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That's a reasonable analysis, if you think nobility and virtue only come from lockstep authoritarianism and cult-like homogeny, but unfortunately for Fred Thompson, he is running to lead a democracy.
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Everything seems to have been sucked out, one way or another, and turned into the homogeny of celebridee and talent shows.
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Everything seems to have been sucked out, one way or another, and turned into the homogeny of celebridee and talent shows.
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Some have asked why they play "peasant music in an affluent zip code," and their music has responded with the idea that homogeny is neither representative for our present nor characteristic of a progressive future.
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