zootype (English, noun)
expansion: zootype (plural zootypes)
Senses:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A proposed archetype of the form of all animals, based not on a shared body plan but on conserved molecular homologies.
glosses: An animal totem; an animal (or animal figure) that is taken as symbolic of a deeper abstraction.
Forms:
form: zootypes
tags: plural