zootype

动物模式

词形变化

zootypes 复数 zootypes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A proposed archetype of the form of all animals, based not on a shared body plan but on conserved molecular homologies.

    生物
  2. 2.

    An animal totem; an animal (or animal figure) that is taken as symbolic of a deeper abstraction.

词源

From zoo- + type. In the biological sense, by analogy with phylotype.

来源：wiktionary