Usually means: Ancestral trait shared by relatives.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (plesiomorphic)

▸ adjective:  (cladistics) Sharing a character state with an ancestral clade; primitive.
▸ adjective:  plesiomorphous

Similar:
apomorphous, apomorphic, pleisiomorphic, monophyletic, homophyletic, autapomorphic, secondary, holophyletic, autapomorphous, monophylogenic, more...

Opposite:
apomorphic, derived, advanced, derived trait, innovative

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Similar:
apomorphous, apomorphic, pleisiomorphic, monophyletic, homophyletic, autapomorphic, secondary, holophyletic, autapomorphous, monophylogenic, more...

Opposite:
apomorphic, derived, advanced, derived trait, innovative



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