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Meaning of plesiomorphic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1
ˌplizioʊˈmɔɹfɪk

Definitions

  1. Sharing a character state with an ancestral clade; primitive.
  2. Plesiomorphous.

Examples

“[T]he cockroach Polyphaga may represent a condition more plesiomorphic than in other Dictyoptera, but it could as well be paedomorphic, and therefore more derived than in other Dictyoptera [72].”

CEFR level

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

plesiomorphous plesionymic plesionymous plesiopedal plesiopelvic plessitic

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