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homoplasious

homoplasious adjective: homoplastic.

Adjective

homoplasious (comparative more homoplasious, superlative most homoplasious)

  1. Homoplastic.
    • They are characterized instead by lists of homoplasious polythetic characters that are not easily retrievable from the publications [70 –73 ].2015 July 31, “Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of homoplasious

comparativemore homoplasious
superlativemost homoplasious

Origin of homoplasious

From homoplasy + -ious.

Words formed from homoplasious

Questions about homoplasious

What does homoplasious mean?
Homoplasious means homoplastic.
What part of speech is homoplasious?
Homoplasious is an adjective.

Words near homoplasious in the dictionary

  1. homopipramol
  2. homoplantaginin
  3. homoplasia
  4. homoplasic
  5. homoplasies
  6. homoplasious
  7. homoplasiously
  8. homoplasmic
  9. homoplasmicity
  10. homoplasmid
  11. homoplasmids

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