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Meaning of monophyletic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

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

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

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