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Clade vs Cade - What's the difference?

clade | cade |

As nouns the difference between clade and cade

is that clade is a group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species while cade is a prickly, bushy Mediterranean juniper, species: Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar.

As a proper noun Cade is

{{surname|A=An|English metonymic occupational|from=occupations}} for a cooper.

As an adjective cade is

abandoned by its mother and reared by hand.

As a verb cade is

to bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.

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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    cade

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rare: Caide, Kade, Kayde

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • for a cooper.
  • * ,Scene IV:
    • Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge; / The citizens fly and forsake their houses; / The rascal people, thirsting after prey, / Join with the traitor;
  • transferred from the surname.
  • * 1936 , Gone With the Wind , Read Books 2008, ISBN 1443719587, page 26:
    • They're fine lads, but if it's Cade Calvert you're setting your cap after, why, 'tis the same with me.

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