Library / English Dictionary

TYPE SPECIES

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(biology) the species that best exemplifies the essential characteristics of the genus to which it belongs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("type species" is a kind of...):

species ((biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

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 Context examples: 

They include the type species, MASON-PFIZER MONKEY VIRUS, isolated from mammary carcinoma and normal tissues in rhesus monkeys, and several other serotypes of simian type D retroviruses (RETROVIRUSES TYPE D, SIMIAN), all of which cause simian AIDS (SAIDS) and other malignancies.

(Betaretrovirus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)