cladistic analysis

1. 1.

   a taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations

   Synonymscladistics

   Broadertaxonomy

Questions about cladistic analysis

What does cladistic analysis mean?

cladistic analysis means "a taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations".

What is another word for cladistic analysis?

Close synonyms include cladistics. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cladistic analysis a common word?

cladistic analysis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.