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diphyletic

[ dahy-fahy-let-ik ]

adjective

, Biology.
  1. of or relating to a taxonomic group of organisms derived from two separate ancestral lines.


diphyletic

/ ˌdaɪfaɪˈlɛtɪk /

adjective

  1. 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

First recorded in 1900–05; di- 1 + phyletic
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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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