polyphyletic
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polyphyletic (adjective; Greek polys, many; phyle, tribe): 1. Of mixed evolutionary origin, not derived from a common ancestor.
2. Pertaining to a group whose most recent common ancestor is not cladistically a member of that group.
3. Pleophyletic.
