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cladists

cladists is the plural of cladist.

Meaning of cladist

Noun

cladist (plural cladists)

  1. (systematics) A biologist who studies clades, an evolutionary biologist who studies the pattern of species interrelationships according to the principles of cladistics.
    • The pheneticist and evolutionist classify species and genera in this manner. Not so the cladist, who deals with the unknown quantities produced by phylo-genetic splits.1997, Ernst Mayr, Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays, page 448

Questions about cladists

What is cladists the plural of?
Cladists is the plural of cladist.

Words near cladists in the dictionary

  1. cladistians
  2. cladistic
  3. cladistical
  4. cladistically
  5. cladistics
  6. cladists
  7. cladium
  8. cladly dressed
  9. clado-
  10. cladobranch
  11. cladobranchs

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