单词 | metatype |
释义 | metatypen.ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [noun] > one who or that which makes representations > precursor of antitype1613 countertype1624 metatype1658 1658 T. Wall Comment on Times (new ed.) 37 Amaleck is a true Metatype of the divel. 2. Zoology. A specimen from the type locality of a particular species, which is confirmed as belonging to that species by the author who originally described it. ΚΠ 1893 O. Thomas in Proc. Zool. Soc. 242 A metatype is a specimen received from the original locality after the description has been published, but determined as belonging to his own species by the original describer himself. 1928 Amer. Midland Naturalist 11 87 A number of casts have been deposited in the University of Cincinnati Museum, along with metatypes of some Plattin and Decorah species previously described. 1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) xiii. 273 A topotype recognized by the original author as belonging to his species acquires additional value thereby, and is called a metatype. 1967 R. E. Blackwelder Taxonomy xxix. 591 Specimens identified as to time or person of identification. Metatypes, homotypes (homoeotypes), and so on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1658 |
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