English Explanatory Dictionary

monophyly

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In cladistics, the condition of being monophyletic, of including all descendants from a given ancestral species.

Word forms

monophyly

Antonyms

paraphyly polyphyly

Related words

monophyletic

Derived words

nonmonophyly
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