homotypeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• IPA: /ˈhɒmətaɪp/, /ˈhəʊmətaɪp/

名詞

homotype (plural homotypes)

1. (biology) That which has the same fundamental type of structure as something else.

   The right arm is the homotype of the right leg.

   One arm is the homotype of the other.

   • 1848, Richard Owen, On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton:

     humerus is the homotype of femur

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“homotype”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.