Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, division of a given group of animals into more than two other groups or series: correlated with dichotomy.
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- noun
polytomy
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Polytomy: A polytomy (also called a polychotomy) is a section of a phylogeny in which the evolutionary relationships can not be fully resolved to dichotomies.
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