Zootype
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Zootype is a noun meaning (biology) A proposed archetype of the form of all animals, based not on a shared body plan but on conserved molecular homologies.
Meaning
(biology) A proposed archetype of the form of all animals, based not on a shared body plan but on conserved molecular homologies.
More Meanings
- (symbology) An animal totem; an animal (or animal figure) that is taken as symbolic of a deeper abstraction.
Word Forms
- zootypes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ontotype, anatomotype, bodyplan, allotype, plesiomorph, groundplan.
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