plesiomorphic

English

Etymology

plesiomorph +‎ -ic

Pronunciation
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˌplizioʊˈmɔɹfɪk/
  • Hyphenation: ple‧sio‧mor‧phic

Adjective

plesiomorphic (comparative more plesiomorphic, superlative most plesiomorphic)

  1. (cladistics) Sharing a character state with an ancestral clade; primitive.
    • 2000, Christine A. Nalepa, Claudio Bandi, “Paedomorphosis and Termite Evolution”, in Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology, →ISBN, page 68:
      [T]he cockroach Polyphaga may represent a condition more plesiomorphic than in other Dictyoptera, but it could as well be paedomorphic, and therefore more derived than in other Dictyoptera [72].
  2. plesiomorphous

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