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pleisiomorphic

pleisiomorphic adjective: of a characteristic of an organism, acquired from its ancestors; not morphologically distinct from the same feature in an ancestor.

Adjective

pleisiomorphic (comparative more pleisiomorphic, superlative most pleisiomorphic)

  1. Of a characteristic of an organism, acquired from its ancestors; not morphologically distinct from the same feature in an ancestor.

Antonyms of pleisiomorphic

Forms of pleisiomorphic

comparativemore pleisiomorphic
superlativemost pleisiomorphic

Questions about pleisiomorphic

What does pleisiomorphic mean?
Pleisiomorphic means of a characteristic of an organism, acquired from its ancestors; not morphologically distinct from the same feature in an ancestor.
What part of speech is pleisiomorphic?
Pleisiomorphic is an adjective.

Words near pleisiomorphic in the dictionary

  1. pleiotropisms
  2. pleiotropy
  3. pleiotypic
  4. pleioxeny
  5. pleisiomorph
  6. pleisiomorphic
  7. pleisiomorphs
  8. Pleistocene
  9. Pleistocenic
  10. pleistophyte
  11. pleistophytes

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