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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Monophyletic

· Mon·o·phy·let·ic · IPA
01 a. Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyle…
  1. 1.
    Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.(Biol.)