Definition of MONOPHYLETIC

monophyletic

Adj

  • Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms.
  • Deriving from a single clade (monophylum).
  • Descending from a single ancestral species.
  • Descending from a single ancestral species and containing all descendants of that single ancestor, holophyletic.
  • Descending from a single ancestral species.
  • Descending from a single ancestral species but not containing all descendants of that ancestor, paraphyletic.
  • congeneric

Origin / Etymology

From mono- + phyletic.

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