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postcladistic

postcladistic adjective: occurring after the use of cladistics.

Adjective

postcladistic (not comparable)

  1. Occurring after the use of cladistics.
    • Morphometrics is thusemployed for the postcladistic morphological analysis of monophyletic groups (Smith, 1990) found in gene trees and for the analysis of patterns of morphological evolution.2003, Andrea Cardini, “The Geometry of the Marmot (Rodentia: Sciuridae) Mandible: Phylogeny and Patterns of Morphological Evolution”, in Systematic Biology, volume 52, archived from the original on...
    Antonyms:
    precladistic

Antonyms of postcladistic

Origin of postcladistic

From post- + cladistic.

Questions about postcladistic

What does postcladistic mean?
Postcladistic means occurring after the use of cladistics.
What part of speech is postcladistic?
Postcladistic is an adjective.

Words near postcladistic in the dictionary

  1. postcingulid
  2. postcingulids
  3. postcingulum
  4. postcircumcision
  5. postcivilization
  6. postcladistic
  7. postclass
  8. postclassic
  9. postclassical
  10. postclassically
  11. postclavicle

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