Definitions For Zootype

Noun

ZOOTYPE (plural ZOOTYPEs) (biology) A proposed archetype of the form of all animals, based not on a shared body plan but on conserved molecular homologies. (symbology) An animal totem; an animal (or animal figure) that is taken as symbolic of a deeper abstraction.

Etymology

from zoo + type. in the biological sense, by analogy with phylotype.

Is Zootype a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary NO

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Scrabble
21
Words with Friends
21

The word Zootype is worth 21 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends

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