clade

Plural: clades

Noun

A group of organisms descended from a common ancestor.
a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor
A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.

Verb

To be part of a clade; to form a clade.

Examples

All the related words on the board formed a linguistic CLADE, stemming from a single root.

Origin / Etymology

From Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957 in a paper titled "The three types of evolutionary process" in Nature. Doublet of cladus.

Scrabble Score: 8

clade: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
clade: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
clade: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

clade: valid Words With Friends Word