English Explanatory Dictionary

ergatotype

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An additional type specimen chosen as a paratype to exemplify the worker caste in a hymenopteran taxon.

Word forms

ergatotype ergatotypes

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐργάτης (ergátēs, “worker”) + -type.

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