paraphyly
Meaning of paraphyly
In phylogenetics, a group of organisms that contains its most recent common ancestor but does not contain all the descendants of that ancestor.
Information about paraphyly
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Hyphenation of paraphyly
pa-ra-phy-ly
- It consists of 4 syllables and 9 chars.
- paraphyly is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
Translation of paraphyly
- Spanish: parafilia
- French: paraphylie
- Italian: parafilia
Words that rhyme with paraphyly
heterophyly, histophyly, homophyly, monophyly, morphophyly, organophyly, physiophyly, polyphyly, shyly, unshyly
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