[T]he cockroach Polyphaga may represent a condition more plesiomorphic than in other Dictyoptera, but it could as well be paedomorphic, and therefore more derived than in other Dictyoptera [72].
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Plesiomorphic
//ˌplizioʊˈmɔɹfɪk//
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