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Clade vs Clave - What's the difference?

clade | clave |

As nouns the difference between clade and clave

is that clade is a group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species while clave is one half of a set of claves, a percussion instrument consisting of two sticks, one of which is used to strike the other.

As a verb clave is

past tense of cleave.

clade

English

(wikipedia clade)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (biology, systematics) A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
  • * 2001 , Ross H. Nehm, 6: Linking Evolutionary Pattern and Development Process in Marginellid Gastropods'', Alan H. Cheetham, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Scott Lidgard, Frank K. McKinney (editors), ''Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record , page 166,
    • 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).
  • * 2002 , , page 1092,
    • No one has ever tabulated the number or percentage of non-trending clades' within larger monophyletic groups. The concept of a non-trending '''clade''' — the higher level analog of a species in stasis — has never been explicitly formulated at all. If only one percent of ' clades exhibited sustained trends, we would still focus our attention upon this tiny minority in telling our favored version of the story of life's history.
  • * 2004 September 11, Bob Holmes, Linnean naming system faces challengers'', ''New Scientist , page 13,
    • A clade is made up of an ancestral species and all its descendants; think of it as that part of an evolutionary tree that would fall off with a single saw cut.
  • (genetics) A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.

    • Derived terms

    * cladist * cladistic * cladistics * cladogenesis * cladogram

    See also

    * monophyletic * phylogenetic * taxon ** class, family, genus, kingdom, order, phylum, species * taxonomy * (cladistics)

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    clave

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (cleave)
  • * , Genesis, 22:3
    • And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
  • * , Ruth 1:14
    • And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1868
    • , author=Thomas Malory , title=Le Morte D'Arthur , chapter=11 , url= , isbn= , page= , passage=Sir Launcelot put his shield afore him, and put the stroke away of the one giant, and with his sword he clave his head asunder.}}

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) clave, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (musical instruments) One half of a set of claves, a percussion instrument consisting of two sticks, one of which is used to strike the other.
  • (music) A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.

    • See also

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