Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A system of classification based on the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of groups of organisms.
Wiktionary
- n. systematics : An approach to biological systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon synapomorphies (shared derived characteristics) only, and not upon symplesiomorphies (shared ancestral characteristics).
WordNet 3.0
- n. a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms
Examples
“The term nested in cladistics is used precisely in the same sense as in nested hierarchy.”
“The basic idea behind cladistics is that members of a group share a common evolutionary history, and are "closely related," more so to members of the same group than to other organisms.”
“It also appears that the word "nested" in cladistics isn't used how the rest of the world uses the word.”
“I said the way the word "nested" is used in cladistics is not the same way as it is used in nested hierarchy.”
“I imagine it's rather important in cladistics to be able to differentiate between homologous traits and analogous traits.”
“I have already provided a reference that says cladistics is not the same as Linnean classification, yet you seem to conflate the two.”
“So cladistics is a reductive method, stripping a defined set of taxa, that have for sure one trait in common, of all distinguishing, autapomorphic traits to arrive at sets of plesiomorphic traits that are common to all taxa in the monophylitic clade.”
“The way "nested" is used in cladistics the only nesting is because someone put it there.”
“Also "nested" in cladistics just means that someone put them there as an ancestor.”
“In biology cladistics is an analytical approach to a defined set of taxa.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cladistics’.
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
czardas, cytometer, cytology, cytheromania, cystoscope, cystolith, cyrenaic, cypseline, cyprinoid, cyphonism, cynophobia, cytogenesis and 1298 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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clado-, clad-
of or relating to a branch or branching
cladogram, cladistics, cladophyll, cladode, cladocera, cladoptosis, cladonia, clade, cladoceran, cladrastis, cladose
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
anacoluthon, defenestration, hypnopomp, hypnagogue, idioglossia, panopticon, tatterdemalion, abalone, caltrop, miasma, paroxysm, smalt and 475 more...
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Physical anthropology
acclimatization, adriatic, aegyptid, aeta, aethiopid, africoid, ainuid, aistin, alae, alare, albino, allele and 202 more...
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juv3nal's Words
ligature, hermeneutic, caduceus, prelapsarian, apophenia, pataphor, lipogram, epinephrine, ludic, samizdat, oulipo, oulipopo and 194 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
snailery, aplasia, postulant, aigrette, caravel, frigate, capeskin, suffusion, schist, varlet, sepulchral, anisotropy and 317 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Vocab
abulia, alpestrine, aphotic, anneal, arcuate, bibulous, cachexia, clastic, conchoidal, contredanse, cthonic, demotic and 8 more...
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ramages
names of trees and bushes and other asundry items that name branching
juniper, pinon, tamarind, ponderosa pine, douglas fir, locust, sycamore, cottonwood, mountain mahogany, blue spruce, cedar, aspen and 76 more...
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han's list
Interesting words, mostly from The Economist and other newspapers.
sauerkraut, latke, hoi polloi, supplication, belie, sinecure, duplicity, eulogize, gentile, denouement, peaceable, nous and 29 more...
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quark, quark, quark!
science words that are fun to say
math, too
"I like to say 'quark'! Quark, quark, quark, quark!" - Hobbesscatological, circadian rhythm, imago, quark, gastrointestinal, phylum, protease inhibitor, trilobite, solar plexus, ratite, strata, quasar and 86 more...
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Rich Habitats: A Study of Invertebrates
Vocabulary for studying invertebrates at Bartram's Garden
adaptation, biodiversity, cladistics, classification, decomposer, detritus, exoskeleton, habitat, invertebrate, metamorphosis, organism, predator and 16 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cladistics.
Mats Envall Cladistics is applied set theory searching for Russell's paradox. Jul 12, 2011
reesetee From American Heritage Science Dictionary: A system of classification based on the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of groups of organisms, rather than purely on shared features. Feb 9, 2007