Polytypic means of more than one type. It often refers to:

• Polytypic function, in computer science
• Polytypic habitat, in ecology, a habitat not dominated by a single species
• Polytypic taxon, in biology, a taxon with more than one immediately subordinate taxa

• Polyclonal antibodies
• Polytypes in crystallography
• Race (classification of human beings) for a discussion of whether the species Homo sapiens is polytypic