Usually means: Group excluding some descendant species.
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  1. paraphyletic: Merriam-Webster
  2. paraphyletic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. paraphyletic: Wiktionary
  4. paraphyletic: Dictionary.com
  5. Paraphyletic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  3. paraphyletic: Natural History Terms

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adjective:  (systematics) Of a defined group of taxa: not including all descendants of the most recent common ancestor of all members.

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