Standard Lemma guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A sample from which the characters of a population are to be inferred.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anthropology, biology, human-sciences, natural-sciences, sciences, taxonomy
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Coined in 1940 by George Gaylord Simpson, Types in Modern Taxonomy, published in American Journal of Science #238, p. 418.
