holotype

About 0.40 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used to formally describe the species (or lower-order taxon), subsequently to be kept as a reference.

Similar words

type specimen nat usnm lectotype topotype paratype syntype isotype homeotype orthotype

Often followed by

of and is male in female was specimen from

Word family

holotypes holotypic