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Convergently meaning
In a convergent manner | With regard to convergence
Example sentences (4)
Legs evolved convergently in the arthropods, octopuses and four kinds of fish (tetrapods, frogfish, skates, mudskippers).
Puffballs and similar forms are thought to have evolved convergently (that is, in numerous independent events) from Hymenomycetes by gasteromycetation, through secotioid stages.
The structure of arbuscular mycorrhizas has been highly conserved since their first appearance in the fossil record, citation with both the development of ectomycorrhizas, and the loss of mycorrhizas, evolving convergently on multiple occasions.
They have been convergently evolved, being unrelated to the animal's distant reptile ancestors, except that they use a similar gene.