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pseudocladistic

pseudocladistic adjective: appearing to be cladistic but lacking systematic methodology and using subjective classification.

Adjective

pseudocladistic (not comparable)

  1. Appearing to be cladistic but lacking systematic methodology and using subjective classification.
    • Bishop (1979) was the first author to propose a hypothesis of relationships based on a pseudocladistic analysis for the American camaenid genera.2008, M. J. Bishop, “A new species of Caracolus (Pulmonata: Camaenidae) from the Oligocene of Nebraska and the biotic history of the American camaenid land snails”, in Zoological Journal of the...

Origin of pseudocladistic

From pseudo- + cladistic.

Questions about pseudocladistic

What does pseudocladistic mean?
Pseudocladistic means appearing to be cladistic but lacking systematic methodology and using subjective classification.
What part of speech is pseudocladistic?
Pseudocladistic is an adjective.

Words near pseudocladistic in the dictionary

  1. pseudocircle
  2. pseudocircles
  3. pseudocirrhosis
  4. pseudocirri
  5. pseudocirrus
  6. pseudocladistic
  7. pseudoclasper
  8. pseudoclaspers
  9. pseudoclass
  10. pseudoclasses
  11. pseudoclassic

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