adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms. not-comparable
2. 2
   Deriving from a single clade (monophylum). not-comparable
3. 3
   Descending from a single ancestral species.; Descending from a single ancestral species and containing all descendants of that single ancestor, holophyletic. not-comparable
4. 4
   Descending from a single ancestral species.; Descending from a single ancestral species but not containing all descendants of that ancestor, paraphyletic. not-comparable
5. 5
   congeneric not-comparable

Etymology

From mono- + phyletic.

Related phrases

monophyletic group

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