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ideotype

ideotype noun: a specimen identified as belonging to a specific taxon by the author of that taxon, but collected from somewhere other than the type locality.

Noun

ideotype (plural ideotypes)

  1. A specimen identified as belonging to a specific taxon by the author of that taxon, but collected from somewhere other than the type locality
  2. (cognitive science) A type of concept metarepresentation that is a compound memory trace consisting of the structural information detected by humans in categorical stimuli

Forms of ideotype

pluralideotypes

Origin of ideotype

From ideo- + -type.

Words formed from ideotype

Questions about ideotype

What does ideotype mean?
Ideotype means a specimen identified as belonging to a specific taxon by the author of that taxon, but collected from somewhere other than the type locality.
What part of speech is ideotype?
Ideotype is a noun.
What is the plural of ideotype?
The plural of ideotype is ideotypes.

Words near ideotype in the dictionary

  1. ideosphere
  2. ideospheres
  3. ideot
  4. ideothetic
  5. ideots
  6. ideotype
  7. ideotypes
  8. ideotypic
  9. ideoventricular
  10. IDer
  11. IDers

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