ideotype

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ideotype

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Etymology

From ideo- +‎ -type.

Noun

ideotype (plural ideotypes)

1. A specimen identified as belonging to a specific taxon by the author of that taxon, but collected from somewhere other than the type locality
2. (cognitive science) A type of concept metarepresentation that is a compound memory trace consisting of the structural information detected by humans in categorical stimuli

Derived terms

• idiotypy

Related terms

• ideotypic

See also

• idiotype