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ecotype en · NOUN

Etymology

From eco- + type, coined by Swedish botanist Göte Turesson in 1922 and modeled on the earlier ecospecies.

Meanings

1. A phenotype that is adapted to a specific environment.
   • These four Japanese introductions probably were of the Japonica ecotype. 1995, C. Wayne Smith, Crop Production: Evolution, History, and Technology, page 234:
   • She collected rhizomes of two ecotypes, a northern ecotype originally from Yellowstone County, Montana, and a southern ecotype from an agricultural field near Hollister, California. 1997, Steven R. Radosevich, Jodie S. Holt, Claudio Ghersa, Weed Ecology: Implications for Management, page 78:
   • The more interesting question is, What is the difference between an endemic and an ecotype? 1997, Mark R. Macnair, “The evolution of plants in metal-contaminated environments”, in Rudolf Bijlsma, Volker Loeschcke, editors, Environmental Stress, Adaptation, and Evolution, page 19:

Forms

Relateds

subecotype · ecotypic

Synonyms

ecospecies

Translations (11)

is staðbrigði (organism adapted to an environment) · ca ecotipus (organism adapted to an environment) · pt ecótipo (organism adapted to an environment) · es ecotipo (organism adapted to an environment) · de Ökotyp (organism adapted to an environment) · fr écotype (organism adapted to an environment) · da økotype (organism adapted to an environment) · nb økotype (organism adapted to an environment) · ca ecotip (organism adapted to an environment) · nn økotype (organism adapted to an environment) · it ecotipo (organism adapted to an environment)