polyphyletic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Having multiple ancestral sources; referring to a taxon that does not contain the most recent common ancestor of its members.

polyphyletic more polyphyletic most polyphyletic

From poly- + phyletic.

pleophyletic

monophyletic paraphyletic

polyphyletically

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