tectotype
The English word “tectotype” has 2 meanings listed here.
noun
- A type specimen explicitly designated to show microscopic structure.
- A type section of a tectonic zone.
Etymology
From tecto- + type, coined independently in different fields. The earliest attested sense is the taxonomic one, coined by Frederick Chapman in 1912.
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