English Explanatory Dictionary

monophyletic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  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.
  4. Descending from a single ancestral species and containing all descendants of that single ancestor, holophyletic.
  5. Descending from a single ancestral species but not containing all descendants of that ancestor, paraphyletic.
  6. congeneric

Word forms

monophyletic

Etymology

From mono- + phyletic.

Related words

biphyletic epiphyletic holophyletic monophyletist monophyly paraphyletic polyphyletic

Derived words

monophylesis monophyletical monophyletically monophyletic group monophyleticity monophyletism nonmonophyletic
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