monophyletic (English, adj)
expansion: monophyletic (not comparable)
Senses:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms.
tags: not-comparable
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Deriving from a single clade (monophylum).
tags: not-comparable
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Descending from a single ancestral species.
Descending from a single ancestral species and containing all descendants of that single ancestor, holophyletic.
tags: not-comparable
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Descending from a single ancestral species.
Descending from a single ancestral species but not containing all descendants of that ancestor, paraphyletic.
tags: not-comparable
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: congeneric
tags: not-comparable
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