English Explanatory Dictionary

clade

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
  2. A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.
verb
  1. To be part of a clade; to form a clade.

Pronunciation

/kleɪd/ en-us-clade.ogg

Word forms

clade clades clading claded

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957 in a paper titled The Three Types of Evolutionary Process in Nature. Doublet of cladus.

Related words

monophyletic phylogenetic class family genus kingdom order phylum species taxon taxonomy

Derived words

cladal cladeless cladic cladism cladist cladistic cladistics cladogenesis cladogram crown clade haploclade interclade intraclade microclade miniclade monoclade multiclade paraclade subclade superclade
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