"synapomorphy" meaning in English

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      "word": "plesiomorphy"
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  "etymology_text": "syn- + apomorphy",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
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          "word": "synapomorphic"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Eric Buffetaut, Jean-Michel Mazin, Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, page 117",
          "text": "Another supposed synapomorphy of Rhamporhynchidae + Pterodactyloidea presented by Unwin (1995) is the subequal length of metacarpals I–III. In all non-pterodactyloid specimens where this region is known metacarpals I–III are about the same length. Therefore this feature cannot be used as a synapomorphy of Rhamporhynchidae + Pterodactyloidea.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Pablo A. Goloboff, From Observations to Optimal Phylogenetic Trees: Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphological Data, Vol. 1",
          "text": "A “synapomorphy” for a group then amounts to a state change in a character along the corresponding branch; some synapomorphies may be ambiguous when optimization is ambiguous and multiple MPRs exist.",
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        "A derived trait that is shared by two or more taxa of shared ancestry."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cladistics) A derived trait that is shared by two or more taxa of shared ancestry."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "autapomorphy"
        },
        {
          "word": "symmorphy"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "synapomorphy"
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    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “derived trait that is shared”",
      "word": "plesiomorphy"
    }
  ],
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      "word": "synapomorphic"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "syn- + apomorphy",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2003, Eric Buffetaut, Jean-Michel Mazin, Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, page 117",
          "text": "Another supposed synapomorphy of Rhamporhynchidae + Pterodactyloidea presented by Unwin (1995) is the subequal length of metacarpals I–III. In all non-pterodactyloid specimens where this region is known metacarpals I–III are about the same length. Therefore this feature cannot be used as a synapomorphy of Rhamporhynchidae + Pterodactyloidea.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "(cladistics) A derived trait that is shared by two or more taxa of shared ancestry."
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "synapomorphy"
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