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diphyletic
[ dahy-fahy-let-ik ]
adjective
, Biology.
- of or relating to a taxonomic group of organisms derived from two separate ancestral lines.
diphyletic
/ ˌdaɪfaɪˈlɛtɪk /
adjective
- relating to or characterized by descent from two ancestral groups of animals or plants
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Word History and Origins
Origin of diphyletic1
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Example Sentences
All of this work is most detailed and laborious, and has produced a great quantity of data useful to morphologists, but the diphyletic theory is not widely adopted; the evidence adduced for it seems to consist largely of minutiae which, taken by themselves, are inconclusive, or lend themselves to other interpretation.
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