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monophyletic

monophyletic adjective: of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms.

Adjective

monophyletic (not comparable)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms.
  2. Deriving from a single clade (monophylum).
  3. Descending from a single ancestral species and containing all descendants of that single ancestor, holophyletic.
  4. Descending from a single ancestral species but not containing all descendants of that ancestor, paraphyletic.
  5. congeneric

monophyletic meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese

monophyletic in Tamil

ஒற்றை மரபுவழி, ஒரு கணம் வழிவந்த

monophyletic in Vietnamese

of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum
đơn ngành

Origin of monophyletic

From mono- + phyletic.

Words formed from monophyletic

Phrases with monophyletic

Questions about monophyletic

What does monophyletic mean?
Monophyletic means of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms.
What is monophyletic in Tamil?
Monophyletic in Tamil is ஒற்றை மரபுவழி, ஒரு கணம் வழிவந்த. See Monophyletic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is monophyletic?
Monophyletic is an adjective.

Words near monophyletic in the dictionary

  1. monophthongizes
  2. monophthongizing
  3. monophthongs
  4. monophyla
  5. monophylesis
  6. monophyletic
  7. monophyletic group
  8. monophyletic groups
  9. monophyletical
  10. monophyletically
  11. monophyleticism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: monophyletic (page history and authors); monophyletic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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