clade
IPA: kɫeɪd
noun
- (systematics) A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
- (genetics) A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.
verb
- To be part of a clade; to form a clade.
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Examples of "clade" in Sentences
- Check to see if humans are in that clade.
- And the common name for that clade is Tarpan.
- But the traditional class Reptilia is not a clade.
- The bird clade is nested within the reptilian clade.
- A clade is not the same as a Subclass or a Superorder.
- However, the names of APG clades are singularly unambiguous.
- The tetrapod clade is thus nested within the vertebrate clade.
- The Mycoides clade is a sister clade of the Entomoplasmataceae clade.
- I put Limacoid clade in Limacoid with a redirect from Limacoid clade.
- The Urcrustacean is the theoretical coancestor of the crustacean clade.