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[lojban] Re: The Lojban Wikipedia is up
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:59:13PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 August 2004 16:31, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > I don't see that assumption of singularity built into {farvi} *at*
> > *all*.
>
> I don't either, but the central concept in cladistics is the clade,
> which includes something and all its descendants. A clade is a branch
> (except the clade which is the whole tree), and "clade" comes from
> "klados", which means "branch".
This may not help, but for Clade in the Orion's Arm sense (which is
basically equivalent to sub-species) I use prekle.
-Robin
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