polytypic

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

multitaxon polyphyletic multitaxic supraspecific infraspecific multitaxonomic supraspecies species-rich polytrophic polyspecific

Often followed by

species evolution structures with structure genera concept modifications or