While Poker is played in innumerable forms, a player who understands the values of the Poker hands and the principles of betting can play without difficulty in any type of Poker game. Except in a few versions of the game, a Poker hand consists of five cards.
phraÂ·try. n. pl. phraÂ·tries. 1. A kinship group constituting an intermediate division in the primitive structure of the Hellenic tribe or phyle, consisting of several patrilinear clans, and surviving in classical times as a territorial subdivision in the political and military organization of the Athenian state.2.. a grouping of clans or other social units within a tribe. 2. (in ancient Greece) a social group, based on real or fictional kinship, with corporate laws and a set of tutelary deities. phrÄtria = phrÄtrÃ­a-, phrÄtr. s of phrÄtá¸r (clansman akin to) + -brother-ia y ]. 3
In common cladistic usage, a monophyletic group is a taxon (group of organisms) which forms a clade, meaning that it consists of an ancestral species and all its descendants. The term is synonymous with the uncommon term holophyly. paraphyletic taxon contains its most recent common ancestor, but does not contain all the descendants of that ancestor. Diagram: in cyan, the reptiles A polyphyletic taxon does not contain the most recent common ancestor of all its members.