Monophylum

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A hierarchical group of organisms including an ancestor species and all its descendants

Synonyms

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holophyletic groupholophyletic groupmonophyletic groupmonophyletic group

Etymology

From mono- + phylum.

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