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ingroups

ingroups is the plural of ingroup.

Meaning of ingroup

Noun

ingroup (plural ingroups)

  1. The social group that one belongs to.
    • You will learn a lot about formal and informal Japanese language throughout this book. In Japanese society a distinction is made between the 'in-group' (myself, my family, my work colleagues, my friends) and the 'out-group' (my seniors, people from other families and workplaces). Politeness is an...2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese, →ISBN, page 12
    Antonyms:
    outgroup
  2. (systematics) In cladistics, the monophyletic group that includes all taxa of interest to the current study.
    • A cladistic analysis of 45 ingroup and two outgroup taxa was performed on the basis of 134 characters.2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07436
    Antonyms:
    outgroup

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Questions about ingroups

What is ingroups the plural of?
Ingroups is the plural of ingroup.

Words near ingroups in the dictionary

  1. ingrounding
  2. ingrounds
  3. ingroup
  4. ingrouped
  5. ingrouping
  6. ingroups
  7. ingrow
  8. ingrowing
  9. ingrown
  10. ingrownness
  11. ingrows

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