ZOOTYPE

Etymology

Noun

zootype (plural zootypes)

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

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

Source: Wiktionary



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