clade

The story

1. Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromκλάδος“shoot, branch”
2. English todayclade

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.

Words from the same roots