paratype
noun
paratype is a noun meaning “A physical specimen (or an illustration) that is not the holotype but is considered the same taxon by the author of the holotype” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-A-T-Y-P-E, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of paratype is paratypes.
What does paratype mean?
noun
- 1
A physical specimen (or an illustration) that is not the holotype but is considered the same taxon by the author of the holotype.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of paratype
- paratypes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paratype?
Paratype appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does paratype come from?
From para- + type.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).