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# How to pronounce "monophyly" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/mɒnɒfɪlɪ/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **mo·no·phy·ly**
- **Parts of Speech**: noun
- **NOUN**: In cladistics, the condition of being monophyletic, of including all descendants from a given ancestral species.
  - *Example*: "All of these studies have presupposed acanthodian monophyly and stereotyped acanthodian endoskeletal morphology on Acanthodes, the latest-occurring, and a highly apomorphic genus."

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (4 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "monophyly" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "then that's a pretty good indication that they're separate species. So another criterion is monophyly; so they share a single most recent common ancestor. And then you can distinguish them either through fixed morphological differences or as a phenotypic cluster in phenotype space-- this is a more quantitative"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 25:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTvj7vpb6s&t=1535s)

### Example 2
> "I'm going to come to the definition of monophyly today, and I'm going to repeat it next time, so that it gets hammered"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 18:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTvj7vpb6s&t=1117s)

### Example 3
> "So, monophyly. The things in monophyletic groups share a common ancestor, and that common ancestor is not the ancestor of any other group,"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTvj7vpb6s&t=1151s)

### Example 4
> "are separation, cohesion, monophyly and diagnosibility-- can you really tell differences?"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 49:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTvj7vpb6s&t=2941s)


## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "monophyly" correctly?
"monophyly" is pronounced `/mɒnɒfɪlɪ/`. Syllable breakdown: **mo·no·phy·ly**.

### What does "monophyly" mean in context?
In cladistics, the condition of being monophyletic, of including all descendants from a given ancestral species.

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