polyphyletic

About 0.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having multiple ancestral sources; referring to a taxon that does not contain the most recent common ancestor of its members.

Similar words

multiphyletic monophyletic polytypic heterophyletic epiphyletic polygenetic monophylogenic biphyletic homophyletic monophyletical

Often followed by

origin group and groups in origins theory assemblage nature

Word family

polyphyletically