epitype (English, noun)
expansion: epitype (plural epitypes)
Senses:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: An additional, clarifying type (specimen or illustration) of a species or lower-order taxon, provided when the holotype and paratypes from the original classification are demonstrably ambiguous or insufficient.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
qualifier: epigenetics
glosses: An epigenetic alteration in a gene.
Forms:
form: epitypes
tags: plural