ecotype
ecotype noun: a phenotype that is adapted to a specific environment.
Noun
ecotype (plural ecotypes)
- A phenotype that is adapted to a specific environment.
- These four Japanese introductions probably were of the Japonica ecotype.1995, C. Wayne Smith, Crop Production: Evolution, History, and Technology, page 234
- She collected rhizomes of two ecotypes, a northern ecotype originally from Yellowstone County, Montana, and a southern ecotype from an agricultural field near Hollister, California.1997, Steven R. Radosevich, Jodie S. Holt, Claudio Ghersa, Weed Ecology: Implications for Management, page 78
- Synonyms:
- ecospecies
ecotype meaning in Tamil
ecotype in Tamil
- வகைமாதிரி, சூழ்வகை, சூழல்வகை
Synonyms of ecotype
Forms of ecotype
| plural | ecotypes |
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Origin of ecotype
From eco- + type, coined by Swedish botanist Göte Turesson in 1922 and modeled on the earlier ecospecies.
Questions about ecotype
- What does ecotype mean?
- Ecotype means a phenotype that is adapted to a specific environment.
- What is ecotype in Tamil?
- Ecotype in Tamil is வகைமாதிரி, சூழ்வகை, சூழல்வகை. See Ecotype meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is ecotype?
- Ecotype is a noun.
- What is the plural of ecotype?
- The plural of ecotype is ecotypes.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ecotype (page history and authors); ecotype (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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