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Definition of Monophyletic
1. a. Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.
Definition of Monophyletic
1. Adjective. (biology) Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms. ¹
2. Adjective. (biology) Deriving from a single clade (monophylum). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monophyletic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Monophyletic
1. Derived from a single ancestral line. Compare: polyphyletic. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monophyletic
Literary usage of Monophyletic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"It has been assumed generally that the two groups are monophyletic. The chief
argument, and in fact the only morphological one for the monophyletic theory, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1908)
"The desire to deal with a group whose monophyletic nature is above suspicion has
led the author to exclude from the present paper many Eocene and earlier ..."
3. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"Assuming the origin of Gymnosperms from Pteridophytes as true, the question is
as to the monophyletic or polyphyletic origin of the group. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1899)
"I shall now briefly discuss the monophyletic trees published by authors and ...
The monophyletic designs published by Scudder (1877) and Reuter (1896) do ..."
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