| clad | (adjective) wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: clothed |
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| (adjective) having an outer covering especially of thin metal | - |
| cladding | (noun) a protective covering that protects the outside of a building | Synonyms: facing |
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| clade | (noun) a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor | - |
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| cladistics | (noun) a taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations | Synonyms: cladistic analysis |
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| cladode | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladophyll, phylloclad, phylloclade |
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| cladogram | (noun) a tree diagram used to illustrate phylogenetic relationships | - |
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| cladophyll | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladode, phylloclad, phylloclade |
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| ironclad | (adjective) inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable | Synonyms: brassbound |
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| (adjective) sheathed in iron plates for protection | - |
| (adjective) without flaws or loopholes | Synonyms: bulletproof, unassailable, unshakable, watertight |
| (noun) a wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or steel armor | - |
| phylloclad | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladode, cladophyll, phylloclade |
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| phylloclade | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladode, cladophyll, phylloclad |
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| unclad | (adjective) having removed clothing | Synonyms: unappareled, unattired, undressed, ungarbed, ungarmented |
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