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cladogram

[klad-uh-gram, kley-duh-]
noun Biology.
  1. a branching diagram depicting the successive points of species divergence from common ancestral lines without regard to the degree of deviation.
Compare dendrogram, phenogram.

Origin of cladogram

First recorded in 1965–70; clado- + -gram1
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British Dictionary definitions for cladogram

cladogram

noun
  1. biology a treelike diagram illustrating the development of a cladeSee clade

Word Origin for cladogram

C20: from clade + -o- + -gram
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cladogram in Science

cladogram

[klăd′ə-grăm′, klā′də-]
  1. A branching treelike diagram used to illustrate evolutionary (phylogenetic) relationships among organisms. Each node, or point of divergence, has two branching lines of descendance, indicating evolutionary divergence from a common ancestor. The endpoints of the tree represent individual species, and any node together with its descendant branches and subbranches constitutes a clade.
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