homological
- adjective
- /ˌhɒməˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
Examples
-
Homological Rhetorical Criticism #
Academic text (2013) -
Women's language and body had been crafted in a homological female world; women's ways of knowing were generally constructed through daily practices of life, often learned from other women.
Academic text (2006) -
Convergent, discriminant, and homological validity are treated issues in construct validation, but they are nevertheless unique.
Academic text (1995) -
The research team studied homological similarities between various species to understand their evolutionary relationships.
-
In her thesis, she explored the homological traits that indicate a common ancestry among different plants.
-
The concept of homological structures is important in understanding how certain traits evolve across related species.
Synonyms
Having the same basic structure and origin, often in body parts like arms and wings
Body parts that come from the same ancestor, even if they do different things
Surface Forms
Morphology
homological = homologous (semi-transparent) = homo + log + ical
The term 'homological' is derived from 'homologous', which is a specialized scientific term.
Etymology
Homological comes from the Greek root homo- meaning 'same' and the part -logy meaning 'study' or 'relation', the same homo- you see in homogeneous. In biology, something described as homological has the 'same' origin as something else, even if it now looks or works differently.