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monophylic

monophylic is the misspelling of monophyletic.

Meaning of monophyletic

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

Questions about monophylic

What is monophylic the misspelling of?
Monophylic is the misspelling of monophyletic.

Words near monophylic in the dictionary

  1. monophyletically
  2. monophyleticism
  3. monophyleticity
  4. monophyletism
  5. monophylety
  6. monophylic
  7. monophylletic
  8. monophyllous
  9. monophylly
  10. monophylogenetic
  11. monophylogenetically

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