typical

typical
/tip"i keuhl/, adj.
1. of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
2. conforming to a particular type.
3. Biol. exemplifying most nearly the essential characteristics of a higher group in natural history, and forming the type: the typical genus of a family.
4. characteristic or distinctive: He has the mannerisms typical of his class.
5. pertaining to, of the nature of, or serving as a type or emblem; symbolic.
Also, typic.
[1605-15; < ML typicalis, equiv. to LL typic(us) ( < Gk typikós, equiv. to týp(os) TYPE + -ikos -IC) + L -alis -AL1]
Syn. 1. normal, average, stock, usual.

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