cladogram

  1. Noun.  (taxonomy) A branching treelike graphical representation of the phylogenetic relationships between organisms showing which taxa have branched from common ancestors.
  2. Noun.  phylogenetics) A phylogenetic tree that is strictly the outcome of a cladistic analysis.

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