monophyletic
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editmonophyletic (not comparable)
- (biology) Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms.
- (biology) Deriving from a single clade (monophylum).
- (biology) Descending from a single ancestral species.
- Descending from a single ancestral species and containing all descendants of that single ancestor, holophyletic.
- Descending from a single ancestral species but not containing all descendants of that ancestor, paraphyletic.
- (biology) congeneric
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editof, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum
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deriving from a single clade
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References
edit- “monophyletic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Monophyly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia