hypodigm
English edit
Etymology edit
Coined in 1940 by George Gaylord Simpson, Types in Modern Taxonomy, published in American Journal of Science #238, p. 418.
Noun edit
hypodigm (plural hypodigms)
- (taxonomy, anthropology) A sample from which the characters of a population are to be inferred.
References edit
- hypodigm, Illustrated Dictionary of Entomology, by Paras Nath, Parasnath (New India Publishing, 2007) →ISBN.
- (etymology) hypodigm, Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, by Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, Society for the Bibliography of Natural History (Great Britain), 1971, page 234.