Crossword-Solution: POLYPHYLETIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Polyphyletic | a. | Pertaining to, or characterized by, descent from more than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; -- opposed to monophyletic. |
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Hint 1 meaning
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything
flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour
water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the
waters; to pour out sand or dust.
Hint 2 anagram
ROUP
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Stream
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Sentences with POLYPHYLETIC (5)
The problem of the monophyletic or polyphyletic origin of the human race has also been much discussed.
But the various features in which the Mammals agree and by which they are distinguished are of such a character as to make a polyphyletic hypothesis quite inadmissible.
Comparative philology has recently shown that human speech is polyphyletic in origin; that we must distinguish several (probably many) different primitive tongues that were developed independently.
Between the Hepaticae, Anthocerotales, Sphagnales and Musci, there are no connecting forms known, and it must be left as an open question whether the Bryophyta are a monophyletic or polyphyletic group.
Hence present day systematizing is being more and more discarded, and the said categories--as indeed also the lesser groups of forms--must be of polyphyletic origin, that is, they must have descended from different primitive stocks.