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TYPE SPECIES

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Dictionary entry overview: What does type species mean?

• TYPE SPECIES (noun)
The noun TYPE SPECIES has 1 sense:

1. (biology) the species that best exemplifies the essential characteristics of the genus to which it belongs

Familiarity information: TYPE SPECIES used as a noun is very rare.

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• TYPE SPECIES (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(biology) the species that best exemplifies the essential characteristics of the genus to which it belongs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("type species" is a kind of...):

species ((biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

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