derived

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

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