Usually means: Normal form found in nature.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word wild type:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. wild-type, wild type: Merriam-Webster
  2. wild type: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wild type: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wild type: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Wild-Type, Wild-type, wild-type: Wordnik
  6. wild-type, wild type: Wiktionary
  7. wild type: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. wild-type, wild type: Dictionary.com
  9. Wild-type, Wild type: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Wild-type, wild type: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wild type: Legal dictionary
  2. wild type: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wild-type, wild type: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. wild type: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  5. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  7. wild-type, wild type: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. DOE Genome Glossary (No longer online)
  3. wild type: Evolution Glossary
  4. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

(Note: See wild-type as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (wild type)

noun:  (biology, ecology) The typical form of an organism, strain, gene or characteristic as it occurs in nature.
noun:  (biology, Mendelian) The phenotype of the dominant allele (heterozygous genotype or homozygous dominant genotype).

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