ideotype

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

Origin

Modern English dictionary

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