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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.