# ideotype

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A specimen identified as belonging to a specific taxon by the author of that taxon, but collected from somewhere other than the type locality
2. A type of concept metarepresentation that is a compound memory trace consisting of the structural information detected by humans in categorical stimuli

## Etymology
From ideo- + -type.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/ideotype