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morphotype

morphotype noun: any of a group of different types of individuals of the same species in a population; a morph.

Noun

morphotype (plural morphotypes)

  1. Any of a group of different types of individuals of the same species in a population; a morph.
    • The morphotype, or form-print, must hereafter take its place by the side of the logotype or word-print.1859 June, “The stereoscope and the stereograph”, in Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics, page 744
    • As the first form of a dimorphic sex will be represented in the holotype or allotype, there may be some doubt as to the advisability of classing morphotypes among primary types.1911, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, volume 4, page 208

Verb

morphotype (third-person singular simple present morphotypes, present participle morphotyping, simple past and past participle morphotyped)

  1. To sort into such types (and identify them)
    • Experiment 4 involved only morphotyping, and the results demonstrated the concentration-dependence of the subdivisions of morphotype 1.1977 July, ME Kabay, JJ Gilbert, “Polymorphism and reproductive mode in the rotifer, Asplanchna sieboldi: Relationship between meiotic oogenesis and shape of body‐wall outgrowths”, in Journal of...
    • In a second phase, arriving seeds were left to accumulate in traps for eight months, at which time all seeds, fruits, and germinated seedlings in the traps were collected and "morphotyped" (separated into unidentified but recognizable species).2001, Richard O. Bierregaard, editor, Lessons from Amazonia: The Ecology and Conservation of a Fragmented Forest, page 316

Forms of morphotype

Noun
pluralmorphotypes
Verb
third-person singular presentmorphotypes
present participlemorphotyping
past participlemorphotyped
pastmorphotyped

Origin of morphotype

From morpho- + -type.

Words formed from morphotype

Questions about morphotype

What does morphotype mean?
Morphotype means any of a group of different types of individuals of the same species in a population; a morph.
What part of speech is morphotype?
Morphotype can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of morphotype?
The plural of morphotype is morphotypes.

Words near morphotype in the dictionary

  1. morphotonemic
  2. morphotrap
  3. morphotrapped
  4. morphotropic
  5. morphotropism
  6. morphotype
  7. morphotyped
  8. morphotypes
  9. morphotypic
  10. morphotypical
  11. morphotyping

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