Translation guide
A group of organisms consisting of a common ancestor and all its descendants. In Japanese, this is primarily a technical term in biology, expressed with the loanword クレード or the native term 分岐群.
Referring to a monophyletic group in evolutionary biology, including an ancestor and all its descendants.
The most common and direct loanword from English, widely used in scientific contexts.
This clade includes many species.
A native Japanese term meaning 'branching group', used in academic biology.
Literally 'monophyletic group', emphasizing the shared ancestry. More precise but less common as a direct translation of 'clade'.
In everyday conversation, the concept of a clade is rarely discussed. If you need to explain the idea to a non-biologist, you might use a phrase like 共通祖先から進化したグループ (a group that evolved from a common ancestor) instead of the technical term.
This group evolved from a common ancestor.
この分岐群は単系統である。
This clade is monophyletic.
This monophyletic group has a common ancestor.