Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ideotype

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ideo-type
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

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

noun

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

Etymology

From ideo- + -type.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

ideotypes (plural)

Derived Forms

idiotypy

Frequently Paired Words

ideotypic idiotype

Questions

What does ideotype mean?
A specimen identified as belonging to a specific taxon by the author of that taxon, but collected from somewhere other than the type locality
Where does ideotype come from?
From ideo- + -type.

How to pronounce ideotype

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