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5 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor
originLearned borrowing from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957 in a paper titled The Three Types of Evolutionary Process in Nature. Doublet of cladus and possibly holt.
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