Usually means: Group sharing common ancestral origin.
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▸ noun:  (systematics) In cladistics, the condition of being monophyletic, of including all descendants from a given ancestral species.

Similar:
monophylogeny, monophylesis, monophylety, monophyletism, monophyleticity, monophyleticism, monoclade, ingroup, nonmonophyly, monophylum, more...

Opposite:
polyphyly, paraphyly, non-monophyly

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Similar:
monophylogeny, monophylesis, monophylety, monophyletism, monophyleticity, monophyleticism, monoclade, ingroup, nonmonophyly, monophylum, more...

Opposite:
polyphyly, paraphyly, non-monophyly



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