noun

• A group of organisms believed to comprise all the evolutionary descendants of a common ancestor.

  ‘the great ape and human clade’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Species in the two primary clades in the genus tend to be found in different parts of North America.’
  • ‘Fossils are often not ancestors of extant taxa, but instead may be extinct sister groups to modern taxa or clades.’
  • ‘The same mode of increase has been adopted independently in phylogenetically distinct clades.’
  • ‘Was survival of the various clades through various biotic crises just a matter of luck?’
  • ‘The monilophytes refers to the monophyletic clade of horsetails and ferns.’