derived
- Adjective. (systematics) Of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier ancestral species.
- Adjective. (context, systematics) Possessing features believed to be more advanced or improved than those other organisms.
- Adjective. product of derivation.
- Verb. (past of, derive) .
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