Definition of Diphyletic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diphyletic

diphthongisations
diphthongise
diphthongised
diphthongises
diphthongising
diphthongization
diphthongizations
diphthongize
diphthongized
diphthongizes
diphthongizing
diphthongs
diphy-
diphycercal
diphygenic
diphyletic (current term)
diphyllobothriasis
diphyllobothrium
diphyllobothrium anaemia
diphyllous
diphyodont
diphyodonty
diphyozooids
dipicolinic acid synthetase
dipinti
dipinto
dipion
dipions
dipipanone

Literary usage of Diphyletic

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

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1899)
"In a review of the genealogical trees of the butterflies hitherto published, it will again make the subject clearer if we commence with the diphyletic tree, ..."

2. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1902)
"... therefore, we postulate a diphyletic origin for the group, for which there is really no other good reason, we must believe that the primitive Sphingid ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... an arrangement of animals according to their type of behavior follows closely the diphyletic ar- 1 Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology, Vol. ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"At the Washington meeting, 1902, of the American Association, I presented a joint paper with Dr. JH McGregor on the diphyletic arrangement of the reptiles, ..."

5. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"... that the birds are diphyletic, is t admit the principle of convergence in almost its extreme fom while if this be denied, then the bird-like structures ..."

6. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1900)
"... modern representatives of the latter group are degenerate forms, yet as to the immediate ancestry of the Dipnoi themselves, and the diphyletic origin of ..."

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