clade

clade
noun Etymology: Greek klados Date: 1911 a group of biological taxa (as species) that includes all descendants of one common ancestor

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  • clade — clade …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • clade — [ klad ] n. m. • 1957; du gr. klados « rameau » ♦ Biol. Groupement de plusieurs embranchements de plantes ou d animaux ayant une même organisation et une évolution phylétique commune. Classification par clades. ⇒ cladisme, cladogramme. ● clade… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • clade — group of organisms evolved from a common ancestor, 1957, from Gk. klados young branch, offshoot of a plant, shoot broken off, possibly from PIE root *kel to strike, cut (see HOLT (Cf. holt)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • clade — s. f. Morticínio …   Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

  • clade — [klād] n. a group of living organisms that includes all the descendants sharing specific genetic traits of a common ancestor …   English World dictionary

  • Clade — For other uses, see Clade (disambiguation). Cladogram (family tree) of a biological group. The red and blue boxes represent clades (i.e., complete branches). The green box is not a clade, but rather represents an evolutionary grade, an incomplete …   Wikipedia

  • Clade — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Clade (homonymie). Cladogramme (arbre phylogénétique) d un groupe non défini d êtres vivants. En bleu et en rouge, des clades ou groupes monophylétiques comme pourraient l être les mammi …   Wikipédia en Français

  • clade — noun /kleɪd/ a) A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species. The clade containing humans and chimps is smaller than that containing humans, chimps and fireflies b) A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.… …   Wiktionary

  • clade — clà·de s.f. LE strage : e tra lor cominciar una fiera clade (Ariosto) {{line}} {{/line}} DATA: 1532. ETIMO: dal lat. clade(m) …   Dizionario italiano

  • clade — phyl·lo·clade; clade; …   English syllables

  • Clade (disambiguation) — Clade can mean: Contents 1 Phylogeny 2 Fiction 3 Persons 4 …   Wikipedia

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