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TYPE SPECIES
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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)
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)
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