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noun
A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: systematics
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noun
A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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verb
To be part of a clade; to form a clade.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: biological group
History
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957 in a paper titled The Three Types of Evolutionary Process in Nature. Doublet of cladus and possibly holt.
Across languages
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