epitype

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An additional, clarifying type (specimen or illustration) of a species or lower-order taxon, provided when the holotype and paratypes from the original classification are demonstrably ambiguous or insufficient.
  2. An epigenetic alteration in a gene.

Word forms

epitype epitypes

Related words

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