ideotype

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noun

A specimen identified as belonging to a specific taxon by the author of that taxon, but collected from somewhere other than the type locality

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Meanings

nounideotype (plural ideotypes)

plural ideotypes

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

Origin

From ideo- + -type.

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APA

ideotype. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ideotype

MLA

“ideotype.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ideotype. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ideotype,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ideotype.

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