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Webster 1913 Edition


Polytomy

Po-lyt′o-my

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Noun.
(Logic)
A division into many members.
F. Bowen.

Definition 2024


polytomy

polytomy

English

Noun

polytomy (plural polytomies)

  1. (taxonomy) A section of a phylogeny in which the evolutionary relationships can not be fully resolved to dichotomies