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Meaning of holophyletic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Forming a clade; monophyletic.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Svenska holofyletisk

Examples

“The bees have long appeared to constitute a holophyletic unit.”
“Cladistics aims to identify holophyletic groups (clades) comprising all the descendants of a common ancestor.”
“McCafferty and Edmunds (1979) divided all mayflies into Pannota and Schistonota, regarding Pannota to be holophyletic, and Schistonota to be paraphyletic.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

holophytic holoplanktonic holoploid holopneustic holopod holoprosencephalic

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