Clade vs Spade - What's the difference?
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(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 ,
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* 2004 September 11, Bob Holmes,
(genetics) A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.
A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
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A playing card marked with the symbol .
(offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
(videogaming) To collect and statistically analyze data, for the purpose of determining the underlying random number generator structure or numeric formula.
As a noun clade
is (biology|systematics) a group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.As an adjective spade is
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(wikipedia clade)Noun
(en noun)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).
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.
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.
Derived terms
* cladist * cladistic * cladistics * cladogenesis * cladogramSee also
* monophyletic * phylogenetic * taxon ** class, family, genus, kingdom, order, phylum, species * taxonomy * (cladistics)Anagrams
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(wikipedia spade)Etymology 1
From (etyl) spadu, spada, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- 'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade .'
- I've got only one spade in my hand.