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tectotype

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tec-to-type
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type specimen explicitly designated to show microscopic structure.

noun

A type section of a tectonic zone.

Etymology

From tecto- + type, coined independently in different fields. The earliest attested sense is the taxonomic one, coined by Frederick Chapman in 1912.

Inflected Forms

tectotypes (plural)

Questions

What does tectotype mean?
A type specimen explicitly designated to show microscopic structure.
Where does tectotype come from?
From tecto- + type, coined independently in different fields. The earliest attested sense is the taxonomic one, coined by Frederick Chapman in 1912.

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