clade

clade |klād kleɪd | ▶noun Biology a group of organisms believed to have evolved from a common ancestor, according to the principles of cladistics. ORIGIN 1950s: from Greek klados ‘branch. ’

clade

clade |kleɪd | ▶noun Biology a group of organisms believed to comprise all the evolutionary descendants of a common ancestor. ORIGIN 1950s: from Greek klados ‘branch ’.