phylotype

English

Etymology

From phylo- +‎ type.

Noun

phylotype (plural phylotypes)

  1. A proposed stage in the development of an embryo at which those characteristics of a particular phylum develop.
    1. The pharyngula stage of vertebrates.
  2. (microbiology, taxonomy) A phenetic grouping.
    • 2014 October 2, Andy Newman, “Beneath Central Park, a Teeming Universe”, in New York Times City Room‎[1]:
      But DNA sequencing isolated the 167,000 different phylotypes (roughly equivalent to species) contained in the samples.

Verb

phylotype (third-person singular simple present phylotypes, present participle phylotyping, simple past and past participle phylotyped)

  1. To describe and categorise such phenetic groups.
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