Associations to the word «Holotype»
Noun
Wiktionary
HOLOTYPE, noun. The single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to be used when the taxon was formally described.
Dictionary definition
HOLOTYPE, noun. The original specimen from which the description of a new species is made.
Wise words
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.