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Monophyletic

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Monophyletic is an adjective meaning (biology) Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms.

Meaning

(biology) Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms.

More Meanings

  1. (biology) Deriving from a single clade (monophylum).
  2. (biology) Descending from a single ancestral species.
  3. (biology) congeneric

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clade, monophyletical, monophylic, holophyletic, monophylogenic, monospecific.

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