polyphyletic
/pol-ee-fahy-let-ik/US // ˌpɒl i faɪˈlɛt ɪk //UK // (ˌpɒlɪfaɪˈlɛtɪk) //
多血缘关系,多血缘关系的,多血统,多血型
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : developed from more than one ancestral type, as a group of animals.
Examples
Griffiths clearly showed that Noble's Brachycephalidae was a polyphyletic assemblage.
The mystic notion that the human soul will live forever after death has had a polyphyletic origin.
The problem of the monophyletic or polyphyletic origin of the human race has also been much discussed.
The real difficulty of classification of the fungi lies in the polyphyletic nature of the group.
A collective polyphyletic or heterogeneous group, originally cosmopolitan; with certainty existing since the Miocene.
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