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Nov 29, 2009
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type' spe"cies



Biol.
the species of a genus that is regarded as the best example of the generic characters of the genus; the species from which a genus was originally named.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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