Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having several variant forms, especially subspecies or varieties.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
polytypical .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective taxonomy having several different
taxa of the next lower rank, especially having severalsubspecies - adjective exhibiting
polytypism
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So right now things are undecided, and Chelydra may or may not turn out to be polytypic.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Thirty-one bird species are polytypic on the island.
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Thirty-one bird species are polytypic on the island.
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One of your remarks I do not see the bearing of under your point of view -- namely, that in monotypic genera "the variation and variability" are "much more frequently noticed" than in polytypic genera.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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A new polytypic species of the genus Uromastyx Merrem 1820 (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae: Leiolepidinae) from southwestern Arabia - Thomas M. Wilms and Andreas Schmitz
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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