holophyletic

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"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."

From holo- + phyletic.

paraphyletic polyphyletic

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