plesiomorphic

Adjective

Meaning

(cladistics) Sharing a character state with an ancestral clade; primitive.

plesiomorphous

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Phenetic methods have become relatively rare in modern times, largely superseded by cladistic analyses, as phenetic methods do not distinguish plesiomorphic from apomorphic traits. Source: Internet

Six of the eight families of the Zingiberales contain taxa specialized for pollination by vertebrates, which appears to be the plesiomorphic state in the order. Source: Internet

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