ecotype
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
Definition of ecotype
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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?”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From eco- + type, coined by Swedish botanist Göte Turesson in 1922 and modeled on the earlier ecospecies.
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