Home › Words › I › ideotypeideotypeideotype · noun — A specimen identified as belonging to a specific taxon by the author of that taxon, but collected from somewhere other than the type locality.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom ideo- + -type.nounA specimen identified as belonging to a specific taxon by the author of that taxon, but collected from somewhere other than the type localityA type of concept metarepresentation that is a compound memory trace consisting of the structural information detected by humans in categorical stimuliDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.topotypical 69% match — Collected from the type locality. vs ideotype →homeotype 68% match — A specimen identified as belonging to a certain taxon by an authority who compared it directly with a primary type specimen (usually the holotype). vs ideotype →topotype 67% match — type locality vs ideotype →lectotype 64% match — A biological specimen or illustration later selected to serve as definitive type example of a species or subspecies when the original author of the name did not designate a holotype. vs ideotype →epitypification 64% match — The identification and naming of an epitype vs ideotype →topotypic 64% match — Relating to, or derived from a topotype vs ideotype →paratopotype 64% match — A paratype found in the same locality as the holotype vs ideotype →autotypic 62% match — Relating to an autotype vs ideotype →