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cladistic

cladistic adjective: relating to a clade.

Adjective

cladistic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a clade.
  2. Relating to cladistics.

Origin of cladistic

Back-formation from cladistics.

Words formed from cladistic

Questions about cladistic

What does cladistic mean?
Cladistic means relating to a clade.
What part of speech is cladistic?
Cladistic is an adjective.

Words near cladistic in the dictionary

  1. cladiosis
  2. cladism
  3. cladist
  4. cladistian
  5. cladistians
  6. cladistic
  7. cladistical
  8. cladistically
  9. cladistics
  10. cladists
  11. cladium

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