phylon

American  

[fahy-lon] / ˈfaɪ lɒn /

noun

• phyla
  plural

1. a group that has a genetic relationship or common origin, as a race.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• phyla
  plural

Etymology

Origin of phylon

< New Latin < Greek phŷlon race, tribe, class, akin to phȳ́ein to bring forth, produce, be

Example Sentences

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phylon phyla

Words like phylon, genos, gens, natio, kin, all point to the natural family as the origin of all society.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Charles William Eliot

Once in the phylon many of these activities were elaborated in the life and death struggle for existence.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall

"Our results will have a big impact on our picture of the developmental history of one of the oldest phyla on Earth," says Wörheide.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024

Ranjan said one field of research in particular has him excited -- phylogenetic microbiology, which uses genome analysis to reconstruct the blueprints of sulfur-using microorganisms believed to represent the oldest phyla on Earth.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024

Flatworms and roundworms, two phyla with more than 20,000 species each, have no emoji at all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

As animal phyla continued to diversify, new species adapted to new ecological niches.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

But the study that should elucidate the fundamental similarities or homologies between the several classes, and should suggest the relations of the Echinoderma to other phyla, had scarcely begun.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various