Biol. [ad. Ger. tektologie (Haeckel), for *tektonologie, f. Gr. τέκτων carpenter, builder (cf. ARCHITECT): see -LOGY.] (See quot., and cf. PROMORPHOLOGY.) So Tectological a., pertaining to tectology.
1883. P. Geddes, in Encycl. Brit., XVI. 842/1. In 1866 appeared the Generelle Morphologie of Haeckel. Here pure morphology is distinguished into two sub-sciences,—the first purely structural, tectology, which regards the organism as composed of organic individuals of different orders: the second essentially stereometric, promorphology.
