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CLADISTICS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cladistics mean?
• CLADISTICS (noun)
The noun CLADISTICS has 1 sense:
1. a taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations
Familiarity information: CLADISTICS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
cladistic analysis; cladistics
Hypernyms ("cladistics" is a kind of...):
taxonomy ((biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification)
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