monophyletic

English

Etymology

mono- +‎ phyletic

Adjective

monophyletic (not comparable)

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

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Translations

of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum

Finnish: monofyleettinen (fi)
German: monophyletisch (de)
Vietnamese: đơn ngành

deriving from a single clade

Finnish: monofyleettinen (fi)
Portuguese: monofilético

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Dutch: ^{(please verify)} monofyletisch (nl)

References

“monophyletic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Monophyly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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