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Webster 1913 Edition
Polytomy
Po-lyt′o-my
,Noun.
(Logic)
A division into many members.
F. Bowen.
Definition 2024
polytomy
polytomy
English
Noun
polytomy (plural polytomies)
- (taxonomy) A section of a phylogeny in which the evolutionary relationships can not be fully resolved to dichotomies