monophyletic
adjEtymology From mono- + phyletic.
1
Biology, Natural sciences Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms.
2
Biology, Natural sciences Deriving from a single clade (monophylum).
› Descending from a single ancestral species.
3
Biology, Natural sciences Descending from a single ancestral species and containing all descendants of that single ancestor, holophyletic.
4
Biology, Natural sciences Descending from a single ancestral species but not containing all descendants of that ancestor, paraphyletic.
5
Biology, Natural sciences congeneric
- Derived terms
- monophylesis, monophyletical, monophyletically, monophyletic group, monophyleticity, monophyletism, nonmonophyletic
- Related terms
- biphyletic, epiphyletic, holophyletic, monophyletist, monophyly, paraphyletic, polyphyletic