clade

n. [生]进化枝,分化枝

发音

US /kleɪd/
UK /kleɪd/

词形变化

clades 复数 clades claded clades 三单 clading 现在分词 claded 过去式 claded 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.

  2. 2.

    A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.

    生物 医学
v.
  1. 1.

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

    The phylogenetic tree for CiCBR shows it clades with the human cannabinoid receptors rather than with those other human GPCRs which most closely resemble the cannabinoid receptors.

相关短语

crown clade

词源

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.

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