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phenetic

[ fi-net-ik ]

adjective

, Biology.
  1. pertaining to or based on the observable similarities and differences between organisms without regard to assumed genealogy.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of phenetic1

1960; phen- (extracted from phenotype, or directly from Greek phaínein “to show”; pheno- ) + -etic, perhaps on the model of phyletic or phylogenetic ( def )

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