ecotype

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14
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15
Letters
7

Definition of ecotype

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A phenotype that is adapted to a specific environment.
    “These four Japanese introductions probably were of the Japonica ecotype.”
    “She collected rhizomes of two ecotypes, a northern ecotype originally from Yellowstone County, Montana, and a southern ecotype from an agricultural field near Hollister, California.”
    “The more interesting question is, What is the difference between an endemic and an ecotype?”

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Etymology

From eco- + type, coined by Swedish botanist Göte Turesson in 1922 and modeled on the earlier ecospecies.

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