# clade

> English word · Noun · IPA /kleɪd/ · frequency rank #61,371

## Definitions
1. A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
2. A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.

## Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957 in a paper titled The Three Types of Evolutionary Process in Nature. Doublet of cladus.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/clade