Usually means: Attraction or affinity among similar individuals.
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  1. homophyly: Merriam-Webster
  2. homophyly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. homophyly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. homophyly: Wordnik
  5. homophyly: Wiktionary
  6. homophyly: Dictionary.com
  7. Homophyly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. homophyly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Homophyly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. homophyly: FreeDictionary.org
  11. homophyly: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. homophyly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (homophyly)

noun:  (biology, archaic) That form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting.

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