English Explanatory Dictionary

zootype

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A proposed archetype of the form of all animals, based not on a shared body plan but on conserved molecular homologies.
  2. An animal totem; an animal (or animal figure) that is taken as symbolic of a deeper abstraction.

Word forms

zootype zootypes

Etymology

From zoo- + type. In the biological sense, by analogy with phylotype.

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