Extract type name only from parametric type

General Usage
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Do you mean this?

help?> Core.TypeName
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  Summary
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  mutable struct Core.TypeName <: Any

  Fields
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  name        :: Symbol
  module      :: Module
  names       :: Core.SimpleVector
  wrapper     :: Type
  cache       :: Core.SimpleVector
  linearcache :: Core.SimpleVector
  hash        :: Int64
  mt          :: Any

julia> Base.typename(Vector{Int})
Array

julia> typeof(ans)
Core.TypeName

julia> Base.typename(Vector{Int}).wrapper
Array

julia> typeof(ans) 
UnionAll

Core.TypeName.wrapper seems to be what you want.

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