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holophyletic

holophyletic adjective: forming a clade; monophyletic.

Adjective

holophyletic (not comparable)

  1. Forming a clade; monophyletic.
    • The bees have long appeared to constitute a holophyletic unit.2000, Charles Duncan Michener, The Bees of the World - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 55
    • Cladistics aims to identify holophyletic groups (clades) comprising all the descendants of a common ancestor.2008, Brian McGowran, Kenneth George Denbigh, Biostratigraphy: Microfossils and Geological Time, →ISBN, page 119

Origin of holophyletic

From holo- + phyletic.

Questions about holophyletic

What does holophyletic mean?
Holophyletic means forming a clade; monophyletic.
What part of speech is holophyletic?
Holophyletic is an adjective.

Words near holophyletic in the dictionary

  1. holophrasm
  2. holophrasms
  3. holophrastic
  4. holophrastically
  5. holophrasticity
  6. holophyletic
  7. holophyly
  8. holophyte
  9. holophytes
  10. holophytic
  11. holophytism

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