Phylotype

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A proposed stage in the development of an embryo at which those characteristics of a particular phylum develop.
  2. 2
    A proposed stage in the development of an embryo at which those characteristics of a particular phylum develop.; The pharyngula stage of vertebrates.
  3. 3
    A phenetic grouping.

    "But DNA sequencing isolated the 167,000 different phylotypes (roughly equivalent to species) contained in the samples."

Verb
  1. 1
    To describe and categorise such phenetic groups.

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"But DNA sequencing isolated the 167,000 different phylotypes (roughly equivalent to species) contained in the samples."

Etymology

From phylo- + type.

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