Crossword clues for homogeny
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Homogeny \Ho*mog"e*ny\, n. [Gr. ?; ? the same + ? race, kind.]
Joint nature. [Obs.]
--Bacon.(Biol.) The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny 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 in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence of both groups from a univentricular ancestor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "uniformity of nature;" by 1856 in biological sense, from Greek homogeneia "community of origin," from homogene "of the same race or kind" (see homogeneous).
Wiktionary
n. (context biology English) Similarity in structure, though of different function, because of genetic relationships
WordNet
n. (biology) similarity because of common evolution
Usage examples of "homogeny".
In the hands of a less-accomplished artist, this could well have come off with the same dreadful homogeny of the Conan comics endlessly published by Marvel.
The other dissimilar building was the cantina itself, a magnificent triumph of beauty and design when compared with the dismal homogeny of the rest of the colony.