type specimen

1. 1.

   the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made

   Synonymsholotype

   Broadermodel

Questions about type specimen

What does type specimen mean?

type specimen means "the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made".

What is another word for type specimen?

Close synonyms include holotype. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is type specimen a common word?

type specimen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.