Get to know Polyphyletic better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Polyphyletic in a sentence
Polyphyletic meaning
Having multiple ancestral sources; referring to a taxon that does not contain the most recent common ancestor of its members.
Using Polyphyletic
- The main meaning on this page is: Having multiple ancestral sources; referring to a taxon that does not contain the most recent common ancestor of its members.
- In the example corpus, polyphyletic often appears in combinations such as: be polyphyletic, are polyphyletic, polyphyletic and.
Context around Polyphyletic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Polyphyletic
- In this selection, "polyphyletic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, formerly, small, phyla, group, assemblage and clerodendrum stand out and add context to how "polyphyletic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a formerly polyphyletic clerodendrum and be a polyphyletic assemblage. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "polyphyletic" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with polyphyletic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Not paraphyly * Amphibious fish are polyphyletic, not paraphyletic. (8 words)
The small polyphyletic subgenera Pentanthera and Azaleastrum were divided between two clades. (12 words)
Kalaharia, Volkameria, Ovieda, and Tetraclea have been segregated from a formerly polyphyletic Clerodendrum. (13 words)
Several of these genera may be polyphyletic and may need further division. citation The origins of genus Leishmania itself are unclear. citation citation One theory proposes an African origin, with migration to the Americas. (34 words)
With numerous molecular phylogenies showing Sterculiaceae, Bombacaceae, and Tiliaceae as traditionally defined are either paraphyletic or polyphyletic, a consensus has been emerging for a trend to expand Malvaceae to include these three families. (33 words)
In modern formal classifications, the term is considered obsolete; the microorganisms previously included in the Infusoria are mostly assigned to the kingdom Protista which itself is a polyphyletic assemblage of groups. (31 words)
Example sentences (14)
He also suggested that machaeridians might be polyphyletic, but machaerdians are a well defined group with a number of shared characters and morphological gradations between all three families.
In modern formal classifications, the term is considered obsolete; the microorganisms previously included in the Infusoria are mostly assigned to the kingdom Protista which itself is a polyphyletic assemblage of groups.
It has been suggested that zebras are polyphyletic and that striped equids evolved more than once.
Kalaharia, Volkameria, Ovieda, and Tetraclea have been segregated from a formerly polyphyletic Clerodendrum.
Not paraphyly * Amphibious fish are polyphyletic, not paraphyletic.
Several of these genera may be polyphyletic and may need further division. citation The origins of genus Leishmania itself are unclear. citation citation One theory proposes an African origin, with migration to the Americas.
Terminology for taxa Mono-, para- and polyphyletic taxa can be understood based on the shape of the tree (as done above), as well as based on their character states.
The Dahlgren system recognized three families of orchids, but DNA sequence analysis later showed that these families are polyphyletic and so should be combined.
The former genus and polyphyletic group of 99 species described by Gentry in 1992 is now usually referred to as "Tabebuia sensu lato ".
The puffballs were previously treated as a taxonomic group called the Gasteromycetes or Gasteromycetidae, but they are now known to be a polyphyletic assemblage.
The small polyphyletic subgenera Pentanthera and Azaleastrum were divided between two clades.
They were considered a suborder of the primitive ungulate mammals and have since been shown to represent a polyphyletic group.
This classification divided arthropods into a three-phyla polyphyletic group, with phylum Uniramia including the Hexapoda (insects), Myriapoda (centipedes and millipedes) and the Onychophora (velvetworms).
With numerous molecular phylogenies showing Sterculiaceae, Bombacaceae, and Tiliaceae as traditionally defined are either paraphyletic or polyphyletic, a consensus has been emerging for a trend to expand Malvaceae to include these three families.
Common combinations with polyphyletic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: