Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cladist

/ˈkleɪdɪst/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cladist
IPA: /ˈkleɪdɪst/

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A biologist who studies clades, an evolutionary biologist who studies the pattern of species interrelationships according to the principles of cladistics.

Example Sentences

"The pheneticist and evolutionist classify species and genera in this manner. Not so the cladist, who deals with the unknown quantities produced by phylo-genetic splits."

Etymology

Etymology tree English clade Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English cladist From clade + -ist.

Inflected Forms

cladists (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

clade cladistics

Questions

How do you pronounce cladist?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkleɪdɪst/.
What does cladist mean?: A biologist who studies clades, an evolutionary biologist who studies the pattern of species interrelationships according to the principles of cladistics.
Where does cladist come from?: Etymology tree English clade Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English cladist From clade + -ist.

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