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orthotypes

orthotypes is the plural of orthotype.

Meaning of orthotype

Noun

orthotype (plural orthotypes)

  1. The original published name for a group of genetically related organisms.
    • At the same time it is realised that the validity of the present arrangement can be established only by some worker who has at his disposal an adequate world collection, and who has access to orthotypes and early literature not available here […]1938, JLB Smith, “The South African fishes of the families Sparidae and Denticidae”, in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, volume 26, number 3, page 225

Questions about orthotypes

What is orthotypes the plural of?
Orthotypes is the plural of orthotype.

Words near orthotypes in the dictionary

  1. orthotropism
  2. orthotropous
  3. orthotropously
  4. orthotropy
  5. orthotype
  6. orthotypes
  7. orthotypic
  8. orthotypographic
  9. orthotypographical
  10. orthotypographies
  11. orthotypography

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