phylotype
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A proposed stage in the development of an embryo at which those characteristics of a particular phylum develop.
noun
A proposed stage in the development of an embryo at which those characteristics of a particular phylum develop.
verb
To describe and categorise such phenetic groups.
Example Sentences
- "But DNA sequencing isolated the 167,000 different phylotypes (roughly equivalent to species) contained in the samples."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyéti Ancient Greek φύω (phúō) Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon)der. English phylo- English type English phylotype From phylo- + type.