monophyletic
Adjective
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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.
- Descending from a single ancestral species and containing all descendants of that single ancestor, holophyletic.
- Descending from a single ancestral species but not containing all descendants of that ancestor, paraphyletic.
- Portuguese: monofilético
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