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152 Terms used in Bionomenclature<br />

piesmotype: (zool., unoff.) an illustration prepared form a plate with an<br />

imprint made mechanically from a merotype (q.v.).<br />

Pl., [pl., plate]: a full-page illustration; elements within a plate are<br />

generally referred to as figures and indicated by separate numbers or<br />

letters.<br />

plant: (bot.) in the Code, any organism traditionally studied by botanists;<br />

i.e. regardless of the current classification of the organism which<br />

may be outside the plant kingdom.<br />

Plant Breeders’ Rights: (cult. pl.) a breeder’s legal protection over the<br />

propagation of a cultivar.<br />

Plant Variety Rights: see Plant Breeder’s Rights.<br />

plastocotype: see plastoholotype.<br />

plastoholotype: (zool., unoff.) an artificial specimen moulded directly form<br />

a holotype.<br />

plastolectotype: (zool., unoff.) an artificial specimen moulded directly<br />

form a lectotype.<br />

plastoneotype: (zool., unoff.) an artificial specimen moulded directly form<br />

a neotype.<br />

plastoparatype: (zool., unoff.) an artificial specimen moulded directly<br />

form a paratype.<br />

plastosyntype: (zool., unoff.) an artificial specimen moulded directly form<br />

a syntype.<br />

plastotype: (zool., unoff.) an artificial specimen moulded or otherwise<br />

reproduced directly from a type; particularly used for fossils.<br />

plenary power: (zool.) the power of the International Commission on<br />

Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) to suspend or modify the<br />

application of the Code in the way which it considers necessary to<br />

serve the interests of stability and universality of nomenclature in a<br />

particular case.<br />

pleoanamorphic: (mycol.) of a fungus in which the holomorph has more<br />

than one morphologically distinct anamorph; see synanamorph.

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