macrophylum

noun

Etymology

From macro- + phylum.

  1. derived from φῦλον
  2. borrowed from phylum
  3. prefixed as macrophylum — “macro + phylum

Definitions

  1. A group of two or more related language phylums

    • In Table 3, this is executed synchronically for languages from all parts of the world with the exception of the Indo-European macrophylum, the Uralic macrophylum, and Creole languages, which are considered separately, below.
    • Chamorro is an isolate within the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian macrophylum.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for macrophylum. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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