homotypicadj.

1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Homotypic.

1904 Amer. Naturalist 38 741 This mitosis differs from that of the ‘typical’ mitoses of cells and is called ‘homotypic’.

1965 J. Wilkinson tr. M. Langeron Outl. Mycol. ix. 378 Interkinesis is very short and the two daughter-nuclei very rapidly enter the prophase for the second meiotic (homotypic) division.

1972 Nature 21 Apr. 375/1 He did not believe that cancer should be thought of as a disease of cells nor of homotypic collections of cells.

1930 W. M. Wheeler in E. V. Cowdry Human Biol. 141 Many species often assemble to form aggregations on the same tree or flower, or under the same stone, and these aggregations may be either homotypic, i.e. consisting of members of the same species, or heterotypic, when individuals of more than one species assemble.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 93 The large pincers of the scorpion are homotypical..with the large pincers of the crayfish.

1916 F. A. Bainbridge & J. A. Menzies Essent. Physiol. (ed. 2) xv. 456 In the second division each chromosome splits longitudinally in the ordinary way (homotypical mitosis).

1931 J. E. Frazer Man. Embryol. i. 3 In the second maturation division each cell with its reduced chromosome number divides into two cells containing like numbers... Hence this division is an ordinary or ‘homotypical’ one.

1931 W. C. Allee Animal Aggregations i. 15 Homotypical associations consist of members of the same species which have arisen either sexually or asexually, which may have remained together because they are the offspring of the same parent, or which may have become accidentally associated together although of different parentage.