cladogram
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A branching treelike graphical representation of the phylogenetic relationships between organisms showing which taxa have branched from common ancestors.
noun
A phylogenetic tree that is strictly the outcome of a cladistic analysis.
Example Sentences
- "Hard though it may seem to associate avian elegance with cumbersome and ferocious behemoths this was the story told by the cladograms, revealed by interpreting the bones of the famous old bird Archaeopteryx unfettered by preconceived notions."
Etymology
From clado- + -gram.