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outgroup

noun

Etymology

From out- + group.

  1. calqued from groupe
  2. derived from gruppo
  3. borrowed from groupe — “cluster, group”
  4. formed as outgroup — “out- + group”

Definitions

  1. The group of people who do not belong to one's own social group.

  2. In cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is…

    In cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest.

    • A cladistic analysis of 45 ingroup and two outgroup taxa was performed on the basis of 134 characters.
    • To study the genetic relationships among diphyllobothroid tapeworms, other members of the Diphyllobothriidae are considered, with T. solium as the outgroup.

  3. To form an outgroup.

The neighborhood

  • antonymingroupantonym(s) of “systematics”

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for outgroup. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA