Cladist

Full definition of cladist

Noun

1. (systematics): A biologist who studies clades, an evolutionary biologist who studies the pattern of species interrelationships according to the principles of cladistics.
• 1997, Ernst Mayr, Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays, page 448:The pheneticist and evolutionist classify species and genera in this manner. Not so the cladist, who deals with the unknown quantities produced by phylo-genetic splits.