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dendrogram

American  
[den-druh-gram] / ˈdɛn drəˌgræm /

noun

Biology.

  1. a treelike diagram depicting evolutionary changes from ancestral to descendant forms, based on shared characteristics.

dendrogram British  
/ ˈdɛndrəʊˌɡræm /

noun

  1. any branching diagram, such as a cladogram, showing the interconnections between treelike organisms

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Etymology

Origin of dendrogram

dendro- + -gram 1

Example Sentences

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The dendrogram on top represents the distances between tissue samples.

From Nature • Oct. 10, 2017

Next, we were able to use hierarchical clustering on the dissimilarity to produce a dendrogram of sites and identified 6 co-editing modules with minModuleSize = 30.

From Nature • Oct. 10, 2017

The dendrogram was drawn based on the distance metric computed by non-repetitive coding sites.

From Nature • Oct. 10, 2017

The dendrogram on top represents the distances between tissue samples.

From Nature • Oct. 10, 2017

More­ over, it is possible by straightforward statistical methods to construct from a set of SAB values for a group of or­ganisms a dendrogram, or tree, show­ing the relations among members of the group.

From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2013

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