Clade

5 lettersnoun

Updated June 2026

Definition

A group of organisms comprising an ancestor and all its descendants in evolutionary biology.

“Birds belong to the same clade as theropod dinosaurs.”

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Anagrams of Clade

Words that use exactly the same letters as “clade”.

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Shorter words formed from the letters in “clade”.

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