See Also: clado-(dictionary)
Clado's anastomosis(medicine)
Clado's band(medicine)
Clado's ligament(medicine)
Clado's point(medicine)
Clado, Spiro(medicine)

clado- (iou)



clado- combining form of Greek klados branch, shoot, or of CLADE: see -O-.
clado'genesis noun (Biology) the formation of a new species by evolutionary divergence of an ancestral species and species derived from it (cf. ANAGENESIS) M20.
cladoge'netic adjective (Biology) of, pertaining to, or arising through cladogenesis M20.
cla'dogenous adjective (Botany) growing from or borne on branches L19.
cladogram noun (Biology) a tree diagram of the cladistic relationship between a number of species M20.