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

The researchers examined more than 5,800 publicly available chromosome-scale genomes representing 4,454 species from 19 animal phyla.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

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

However, the three phyla are not closely related phylogenetically to each other.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

In spite of their high development in past ages the Lycopods, recent and fossil, constitute, on the whole, a homogeneous group, and there is little at present to connect them with other phyla.

From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward