cladistic
pronunciation
How to pronounce cladistic in British English:
UK [klæ'dɪstɪk]
How to pronounce cladistic in American English:
US [klæ'dɪstɪk]
Word Origin
- cladistic (adj.)
- 1960, from clade + -istic. Related: Cladistics "systematic classification of life forms" (1965; see -ics).
Example
- 1. Cladistic analysis of fulgoromorpha nymph ( hemiptera : fulgoroidea )
- 2. The citrus phyloge-netic relationship and classification were discussed according to the cladistic relationship .
- 3. Ontogeny is the history of the individual organism , phylogeny the history of the race or lineage ( the linnean taxa or cladistic tree ) .
- 4. That study has met resistance from some other palaeontologists , who question the strength of the cladistic analysis and say that the evolutionary relationships will remain unclear until more early birds and their close relatives are discovered .