Usually means: Systematic classification based on ancestry.
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  1. cladistics: Merriam-Webster
  2. cladistics: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cladistics: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cladistics: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cladistics: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cladistics, cladistics: Wordnik
  7. cladistics: Wiktionary
  8. cladistics: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cladistics: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. cladistics: Dictionary.com
  11. Cladistics (journal), Cladistics: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. cladistics: Rhymezone
  13. cladistics: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cladistics: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. cladistics: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. cladistics: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cladistics: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cladistics)

noun:  (systematics) An approach to biological systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon synapomorphies (shared derived characteristics) only, and not upon symplesiomorphies (shared ancestral characteristics).

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