phylogenetic

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from German phylogenetisch, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, from Phylogenese +‎ -isch.

Adjective

phylogenetic (not comparable)

  1. (systematics) Of, or relating to phylogeny or phylogenetics.
  2. Of, or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms.

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