clade

UK/kleɪd/

clade noun: a group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.

Noun

clade (plural clades)

(systematics) A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
- All three clades containing Prunum and “Volvarina” species contain morphological features that do not collectively appear in any other living or fossil marginellid species (see above).2001, Ross H. Nehm, “6: Linking Evolutionary Pattern and Development Process in Marginellid Gastropods”, in Alan H. Cheetham, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Scott Lidgard, Frank K. McKinney, editors...
- No one has ever tabulated the number or percentage of non-trending clades within larger monophyletic groups. The concept of a non-trending clade — the higher level analog of a species in stasis — has never been explicitly formulated at all. If only one percent of clades exhibited sustained trends...2002, Stephen Jay Gould, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, page 1092
A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.

Verb

clade (third-person singular simple present clades, present participle clading, simple past and past participle claded)

To be part of a clade; to form a clade.
- The phylogenetic tree for CiCBR shows it clades with the human cannabinoid receptors rather than with those other human GPCRs which most closely resemble the cannabinoid receptors.2009, Andrew J. Brown and C. Robin Hiley, "Is GPR55 an Anandamide Receptor?" in Anandamide An Endogenous Cannabinoid (Vitamins And Hormones, Vol. 81), p. 117

clade meaning in Tamil

clade in Tamil

உயிரினக்கிளை

Examples of clade in a sentence

No one has ever tabulated the number or percentage of non-trending clades within larger monophyletic groups.2002, Stephen Jay Gould, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, page 1092:
A clade is made up of an ancestral species and all its descendants; think of it as that part of an evolutionary tree that would fall off with a single saw cut.2004 September 11, Bob Holmes, Linnean naming system faces challengers, New Scientist, page 13:

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Forms of clade

Noun
plural	clades
Verb
third-person singular present	clades
present participle	clading
past participle	claded
past	claded

Origin of clade

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957 in a paper titled The Three Types of Evolutionary Process in Nature. Doublet of cladus and possibly holt.

Words formed from clade

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Questions about clade

What does clade mean?: Clade means a group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
What is clade in Tamil?: Clade in Tamil is உயிரினக்கிளை. See Clade meaning in Tamil.
How do you use clade in a sentence?: No one has ever tabulated the number or percentage of non-trending clades within larger monophyletic groups.
What part of speech is clade?: Clade can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce clade?: Clade is pronounced /kleɪd/ (UK).
What is the plural of clade?: The plural of clade is clades.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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