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semaphoront

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An organism as seen in a specific time during its ontogeny or life cycle, as the object of identification or basis for systematics.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

Topics: biology, natural-sciences

Examples

  • 2024, Andea Cau, "A Unified Framework for Predatory Dinosaur Macroevolution", Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 63, page iii. [...] coding such characters for taxonomic units based uniquely on immature specimens is believed to be misleading, because it cannot be excluded that the states expressed by the immature semaphoronts differ from those expressed by the mature semaphoronts of the same taxon.

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From sema- + -phore + -ont.