Usually means: Ancestral trait shared by species.
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  1. plesiomorphous: Wordnik
  2. plesiomorphous: Wiktionary
  3. Plesiomorphous, plesiomorphous: Dictionary.com
  4. Plesiomorphous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. plesiomorphous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Plesiomorphous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. plesiomorphous: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Plesiomorphous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (plesiomorphous)

▸ adjective:  Nearly alike in form.
▸ adjective:  Crystallizing in similar forms but differing in chemical composition.

Similar:
homeomorphous, pleiomorphous, pleiomorphic, homoiomerous, pleomorphous, homoeomerous, regular, idiomorphic, idiomorphous, plesimorphic, more...

Opposite:
apomorphic, derived, advanced

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homeomorphous, pleiomorphous, pleiomorphic, homoiomerous, pleomorphous, homoeomerous, regular, idiomorphic, idiomorphous, plesimorphic, more...

Opposite:
apomorphic, derived, advanced



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