homoplasious

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From homoplasy +‎ -ious.

Adjective[edit]

homoplasious (comparative more homoplasious, superlative most homoplasious)

  1. (biology) Homoplastic.
    • 2015 July 31, “Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      They are characterized instead by lists of homoplasious polythetic characters that are not easily retrievable from the publications [70 –73 ].
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