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derived

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɪˈɹaɪvd//

Of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier ancestral species.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier ancestral species.

  2. 2

    archaicPossessing features believed to be more advanced or improved than those other organisms.

  3. 3

    A product of derivation

    The French language is derived from Latin.

Etymology

From derive + -ed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of derivesimple past and past participle of derive

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).