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English
Etymology
plesiomorph + -ic
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plesiomorphic (comparative more plesiomorphic, superlative most plesiomorphic)
- (cladistics) Sharing a character state with an ancestral clade; primitive.
2000, Christine A. Nalepa, Claudio Bandi, “Paedomorphosis and Termite Evolution”, in Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology, →ISBN, page 68:[T]he cockroach Polyphaga may represent a condition more plesiomorphic than in other Dictyoptera, but it could as well be paedomorphic, and therefore more derived than in other Dictyoptera [72].
- plesiomorphous
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