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CLADE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does clade mean?
• CLADE (noun)
The noun CLADE has 1 sense:
1. a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor
Familiarity information: CLADE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("clade" is a kind of...):
biological group (a group of plants or animals)
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