Apomorphies is an English word. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Apomorphies in a sentence
Apomorphies meaning
plural of apomorphy
Using Apomorphies
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of apomorphy
- In the example corpus, apomorphies often appears in combinations such as: and apomorphies.
Context around Apomorphies
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Apomorphies
- In this selection, "apomorphies" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, traits and derived stand out and add context to how "apomorphies" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include characteristics or apomorphies and traits and apomorphies derived traits. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "apomorphies" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with apomorphies
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Description Orchids are easily distinguished from other plants, as they share some very evident, shared derived characteristics, or " apomorphies ". (19 words)
Phenetics was an attempt to determine the relationships of organisms through a measure of overall similarity, making no distinction between plesiomorphies (shared ancestral traits) and apomorphies (derived traits). (28 words)
Difference from cladistics Phenetic analyses do not distinguish between plesiomorphies - traits that are inherited from an ancestor (and therefore phylogenetically uninformative) - and apomorphies - traits that evolved anew in one or several lineages. (32 words)
Difference from cladistics Phenetic analyses do not distinguish between plesiomorphies - traits that are inherited from an ancestor (and therefore phylogenetically uninformative) - and apomorphies - traits that evolved anew in one or several lineages. (32 words)
Phenetics was an attempt to determine the relationships of organisms through a measure of overall similarity, making no distinction between plesiomorphies (shared ancestral traits) and apomorphies (derived traits). (28 words)
Description Orchids are easily distinguished from other plants, as they share some very evident, shared derived characteristics, or " apomorphies ". (19 words)
Example sentences (3)
Description Orchids are easily distinguished from other plants, as they share some very evident, shared derived characteristics, or " apomorphies ".
Difference from cladistics Phenetic analyses do not distinguish between plesiomorphies - traits that are inherited from an ancestor (and therefore phylogenetically uninformative) - and apomorphies - traits that evolved anew in one or several lineages.
Phenetics was an attempt to determine the relationships of organisms through a measure of overall similarity, making no distinction between plesiomorphies (shared ancestral traits) and apomorphies (derived traits).
Common combinations with apomorphies
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: