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. øøcladism n. [as CLADE + -IST + -ICS]
CLADISTICS
Meaning of CLADISTICS in English
English main colloquial, spoken dictionary. Английский основной разговорный словарь. 2012