Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

name-bearing type

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.17 in modern English

Syllables: name-bear-ing -type
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

For a species or lower-order taxon, a type (specimen or illustration) that determines the application of the species name; for a genus, the type species; for a family, the type genus.

Example Sentences

"A nominal species and its nominotypical subspecies have the same name-bearing type [Arts. 47a, 61b]."
"Lectotype designation is justified under article 74.1.1 of the ICZN (1999) in order to fix the status of this specimen as the sole name-bearing type of this species."
"In principle, the answer should be straightforward: examine the name-bearing type, and confirm its protoconch type."
"Principle III: The application of names of taxa is determined by means of name-bearing types (hereafter referred to as types), although this principle does not apply to certain names at suprafamilial ranks."

Inflected Forms

name-bearing types (plural)

Questions

What does name-bearing type mean?: For a species or lower-order taxon, a type (specimen or illustration) that determines the application of the species name; for a genus, the type species; for a family, the type genus.

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