ideotype

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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. A type of concept metarepresentation that is a compound memory trace consisting of the structural information detected by humans in categorical stimuli

Word forms

ideotype ideotypes

Etymology

From ideo- + -type.

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