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Is clade a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word clade is a Scrabble US word. The word clade is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is clade a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word clade is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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5-letter words (3 found)

CLADE,DECAL,LACED,

4-letter words (11 found)

ACED,ALEC,CADE,CLAD,DACE,DALE,DEAL,ECAD,LACE,LADE,LEAD,

3-letter words (13 found)

ACE,ALE,CAD,CAL,CEL,DAE,DAL,DEL,ELD,LAC,LAD,LEA,LED,

2-letter words (9 found)

AD,AE,AL,DA,DE,EA,ED,EL,LA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 37 words from clade according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of clade

clade lcade calde aclde lacde alcde cldae lcdae cdlae dclae ldcae dlcae cadle acdle cdale dcale adcle dacle ladce aldce ldace dlace adlce dalce claed lcaed caled acled laced alced clead lcead celad eclad lecad elcad caeld aceld ceald ecald aecld eacld laecd alecd leacd elacd aelcd ealcd cldea lcdea cdlea dclea ldcea dlcea cleda lceda celda eclda lecda elcda cdela dcela cedla ecdla decla edcla ldeca dleca ledca eldca delca edlca cadel acdel cdael dcael adcel dacel caedl acedl ceadl ecadl aecdl eacdl cdeal dceal cedal ecdal decal edcal adecl daecl aedcl eadcl deacl edacl ladec aldec ldaec dlaec adlec dalec laedc aledc leadc eladc aeldc ealdc ldeac dleac ledac eldac delac edlac adelc daelc aedlc eadlc dealc edalc

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Definitions and meaning of clade

clade

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957 in a paper titled "The three types of evolutionary process" in Nature. Doublet of cladus.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kleɪd/
  • Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

clade (plural clades)

  1. (systematics) A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
  2. (genetics) A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

clade (third-person singular simple present clades, present participle clading, simple past and past participle claded)

  1. To be part of a clade; to form a clade.
    • 2009, Andrew J. Brown and C. Robin Hiley, "Is GPR55 an Anandamide Receptor?" in Anandamide An Endogenous Cannabinoid (Vitamins And Hormones, Vol. 81), p. 117:
      The phylogenetic tree for CiCBR shows it clades with the human cannabinoid receptors rather than with those other human GPCRs which most closely resemble the cannabinoid receptors.

See also

  • monophyletic
  • phylogenetic
  • taxon
    • class, family, genus, kingdom, order, phylum, species
  • taxonomy

Further reading

  • cladistics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Cadle, E.D. Cal., cadel, decal, laced

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English clade.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkla.ðə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈkla.ðe]

Noun

clade m (plural clades)

  1. clade

Related terms

  • cladística

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klad/

Noun

clade m (plural clades)

  1. clade
  2. branch

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin clādēs (“breaking; destruction”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkla.de/
  • Rhymes: -ade
  • Hyphenation: clà‧de

Noun

clade f (plural cladi)

  1. (literary) massacre
    Synonyms: massacro, sterminio, strage

Further reading

  • clade in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

  • calde

Latin

Noun

clāde

  1. ablative singular of clādēs

Source: wiktionary.org