phylogenetic tree

English

Noun

phylogenetic tree (plural phylogenetic trees)

1. (biology) A branching diagram illustrating the potential evolutionary relationships among biological organisms or other entities which the tree-maker hypothesizes share a common ancestor.
   • 2011, Jacques Pepin, “The Source”, in The Origins of AIDS, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 22:

     However, phylogenetic trees describe the relatedness between living organisms (and their classification) rather than ancestry. They measure the genetic distance between organisms, and identify the nearest relatives.

Hypernyms

• tree (structurally)

Translations

tree diagram

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 系統發生樹／系统发生树 (xìtǒngfāshēngshù), 演化樹／演化树 (yǎnhuàshù)

• Finnish: evoluutiopuu, fylogeneettinen puu
• French: arbre phylogénétique (fr) m
• Romanian: arbore filogenetic m
• Russian: филогенети́ческое де́рево n (filogenetíčeskoje dérevo), эволюцио́нное де́рево n (evoljuciónnoje dérevo)
• Spanish: árbol filogenético m
• Tagalog: lipmulaing punungkahoy

References

• phylogenetic tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia