polyphyletic – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
polyphyletic
adj.
having more than one ancestral type
Polyphyly
A
polyphyletic (
Greek for "of many races") group is characterized by one or more
homoplasies:
phenotypes which have converged or reverted so as to appear to be the same but which have not been inherited from common ancestors. Alternatively, polyphyletic is used to describe multiple ancestral sources regardless of convergence.
Polyphyletic
(a.)
Pertaining to, or characterized by, descent from more than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; -- opposed to monophyletic.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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