Usually means: Original specimen defining a species.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word holotype:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. holotype: Merriam-Webster
  2. holotype: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. holotype: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. holotype: Collins English Dictionary
  5. holotype: Vocabulary.com
  6. holotype: Wordnik
  7. holotype: Wiktionary
  8. holotype: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. holotype: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. holotype: Dictionary.com
  11. Holotype: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. holotype: Rhymezone
  13. holotype: FreeDictionary.org
  14. holotype: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. holotype: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. holotype: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. holotype: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. holotype: Medical dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Holotype: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (holotype)

noun:  (taxonomy) The single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used to formally describe the species (or lower-order taxon), subsequently to be kept as a reference.

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