Usually means: Group derived from common ancestor.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word monophyletic:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. monophyletic: Merriam-Webster
  2. monophyletic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. monophyletic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. monophyletic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. monophyletic: Wordnik
  6. monophyletic: Wiktionary
  7. monophyletic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. monophyletic: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. monophyletic: Dictionary.com
  10. Monophyletic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Monophyletic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. monophyletic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Monophyletic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. monophyletic: FreeDictionary.org
  15. monophyletic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monophyletic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. monophyletic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. monophyletic: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dinosaurs (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  4. monophyletic: Natural History Terms

(Note: See monophyly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (monophyletic)

adjective:  (biology) Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms.
adjective:  (biology) Deriving from a single clade (monophylum).
adjective:  (biology) Descending from a single ancestral species.
adjective:  Descending from a single ancestral species and containing all descendants of that single ancestor, holophyletic.
adjective:  Descending from a single ancestral species but not containing all descendants of that ancestor, paraphyletic.
adjective:  (biology) congeneric

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