n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.) Biol. a method of classification of animals and plants on the basis of shared characteristics, which are assumed to indicate common ancestry. cladism n.
[ as CLADE + -IST + -ICS ]
CLADISTICS
Meaning of CLADISTICS in English
Concise Oxford English dictionary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2012