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ideotype

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A specimen identified as belonging to a specific taxon by the author of that taxon, but collected from somewhere other than the type locality

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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noun

Meaning 2

A type of concept metarepresentation that is a compound memory trace consisting of the structural information detected by humans in categorical stimuli

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: cognitive science

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History

Etymology

From ideo- + -type.