plesiomorphic

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Sharing a character state with an ancestral clade; primitive.
2. adjective Plesiomorphous.

Similar words

apomorphous apomorphic pleisiomorphic monophyletic homophyletic autapomorphic secondary holophyletic autapomorphous monophylogenic

Often followed by

condition state for character and characters in features feature