homotype
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Etymology edit
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Noun edit
homotype (plural homotypes)
- (biology) That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else.
- The right arm is the homotype of the right leg.
- One arm is the homotype of the other.
- 1848, Richard Owen, On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton:
- humerus is the homotype of femur
References edit
“homotype”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.