Meaning

1 senses

  1. To be part of a clade; to form a clade.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. People with a given skin color do not form a genetic clade.

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  2. Hominins are the most LGBT clade: they comprise Homo and Pan.

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  3. "Are reptiles a clade?" "Not unless you count birds and mammals as reptiles."

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Origin

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British e

Learned 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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Forms

clades, clading, claded, claded
Base formclade · to clade
3rd person singularclades
Present participleclading
Past simplecladed
Past participlecladed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyclade
he, she, itclades

Past simpleLesson

all personscladed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave claded
he, she, ithas claded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill clade

Word family

11 related words
RelatedclassC1familyA1kingdomA2orderA2speciesB2monophyleticphylogeneticgenusphylumtaxontaxonomy

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
civilizecivilizedclackcladisticallyclaimB1clairvoyant
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