postcladistic

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adjective

Occurring after the use of cladistics.

Opposite
precladistic
OriginEnglish cladistic ← Latin post ← Old Latin poste →
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Meanings

adjectivepostcladistic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOccurring after the use of cladistics.

    Morphometrics is thusemployed for the postcladistic morphological analysis of monophyletic groups (Smith, 1990) found in gene trees and for the analysis of patterns of morphological evolution.

    2003, Andrea Cardini, “The Geometry of the Marmot (Rodentia: Sciuridae) Mandible: Phylogeny and Patterns of Morphological Evolution”, in Systematic Biology, volume 52, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2026, page 187

    Antonyms: precladistic

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveOccurring after the use of cladistics.

Opposite
precladistic

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Englishcladistic
  8. Englishpostcladistic

From post- + cladistic.

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