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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In biology: Serial homology; the structural correlation or correspondence between any two segments of the body. Hence— That kind of general homology which may be observed between parts or organs which are symmetrical, or fellows of each other, as right and left; the homology of reversed repetition of parts on opposite halves or across a given axis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) A term suggested by Haeckel to be instead of serial homology. See homotype.

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  • noun biology, dated serial homology

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See homotype. Introduced by Ernst Haeckel.

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