clade
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clade
- /kleɪd/ US, UK
Rhymes with -eɪd
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing 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 and possibly holt.
noun clades
- A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species. All three clades containing Prunum and “Volvarina” species contain morphological features that do not collectively appear in any other living or fossil marginellid species (see above).
- A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.
verb clades · clading · claded
- To be part of a clade; to form a clade. The phylogenetic tree for CiCBR shows it clades with the human cannabinoid receptors rather than with those other human GPCRs which most closely resemble the cannabinoid receptors.
Translations
Talk about this word "clade." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/clade. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. clade. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/clade "clade." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/clade.Cite this
@misc{clade_2026,
title = {clade},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/clade},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
