homoplassy

homoplassy
n. [Gr. homos, same; plastos, formed]
Resemblance between parts or organs between different organisms due to evolutionary convergence or of parallel evolution; homoplastic a; see homogeny.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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