chronogram

Meaning

Noun

• A sentence or inscription whose letters, when interpreted according to a system (such as Roman numerals) in which letters correspond to numeric values, stand for a particular date (usually the date of inscription) when rearranged.
• A phylogenetic tree that has branch spans proportional to evolutionary time.

Origin

• From chrono- + -gram, from Ancient Greek χρόνος + γράμμα.