polytypic

Meaning

Adjective

• having several different taxa of the next lower rank, especially having several subspecies
• of a habitat, not dominated by a single species
• of a substance, able to exist in more than one crystal structure, these differing in one dimension
• of a cell sample, containing several cell types
• of an antibody response, involving several antibodies
• exhibiting polytypism

Origin

• poly- + typic