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Word: Synapomorphy
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1960s: from syn- ‘together’ + apo- ‘away from’ + Greek morphē ‘form’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
sɪˈnapəmɔːfi
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a characteristic present in an ancestral species and shared exclusively (in more or less modified form) by its evolutionary descendants
Short Definition:characteristic present in ancestral species and shared exclusively by its evolutionary descendants
Examples:- the study of skulls of this primitive reptile has led to the discovery of numerous synapomorphies with turtles
