Cladist
//ˈkleɪdɪst// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A biologist who studies clades, an evolutionary biologist who studies the pattern of species interrelationships according to the principles of cladistics.
"The pheneticist and evolutionist classify species and genera in this manner. Not so the cladist, who deals with the unknown quantities produced by phylo-genetic splits."
Example
More examples"The pheneticist and evolutionist classify species and genera in this manner. Not so the cladist, who deals with the unknown quantities produced by phylo-genetic splits."
Etymology
From clade + -ist.
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