Associations to the word «Holotype»

Wiktionary

HOLOTYPE, noun. The single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to be used when the taxon was formally described.

Dictionary definition

HOLOTYPE, noun. The original specimen from which the description of a new species is made.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King