Definition of Clade

1. Noun. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.

Generic synonyms: Biological Group

Definition of Clade

1. Noun. (biology systematics) A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species. ¹

2. Noun. (genetics) A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clade

1. a group of biological taxa [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clade

clacker
clackers
clackety
clacking
clackity
clacks
clad
cladal
claddagh
claddaghs
cladded
cladder
cladders
cladding
claddings
clade (current term)
clades
cladi
cladic
cladinose
cladiosis
cladisitic analysis
cladism
cladisms
cladist
cladistic
cladistically
cladistics
cladists

Literary usage of Clade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"binds He, round light scabbard of his horseman's glaive ; And wrote, Ex clade Romanorum, VER. So cast, in Maran's stream, his dying hand ! ..."

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