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9-letter words (1 found)

MONOPHYLY,

8-letter words (1 found)

POLYONYM,

7-letter words (2 found)

HYPONYM,NYMPHLY,

6-letter words (3 found)

NYMPHO,PHYLON,POLONY,

5-letter words (13 found)

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4-letter words (36 found)

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3-letter words (38 found)

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2-letter words (15 found)

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Definitions and meaning of monophyly

monophyly

Noun

monophyly (uncountable)

  1. (systematics) In cladistics, the condition of being monophyletic, of including all descendants from a given ancestral species.
    • 2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07436:
      All of these studies have presupposed acanthodian monophyly and stereotyped acanthodian endoskeletal morphology on Acanthodes, the latest-occurring, and a highly apomorphic genus.

Antonyms

  • paraphyly, polyphyly

Related terms

  • monophyletic

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