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phylon

noun
/ˈfaɪlɒn/

Etymology

From Late Latin phȳlon (a synonym of tribus, whence the English tribe), from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “race, tribe”), whence the English phylum.

  1. derived from φῦλον
  2. borrowed from phȳlon

Definitions

  1. All of the organisms descending from a given common ancestor, regarded as a race, tribe,…

    All of the organisms descending from a given common ancestor, regarded as a race, tribe, vel sim.; a clade.

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:phylon.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for phylon. 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