typical

Forms

1.Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
2.Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
3.Normal, average; to be expected.
- One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.
4.Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon.
- Celticecis species are definitely known only from the typical subgenus of Celtis, distributed through much of the Holarctic Region.

1.Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.
- Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics.
- Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.

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From Late Latin typicalis

From Latin typicus (“typical”)

From Ancient Greek τυπικός (tupikós, “of or pertaining to a type, conformable, typical”)

From τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), equivalent to typic + -al and type + -ical.