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prototypical

[ proh-tuh-tip-i-kuhl ]

adjective

  1. being the original or model on which something is based or formed:

    Even Los Angeles, the prototypical American automobile city, is rapidly expanding its public transit infrastructure.

  2. illustrating the typical qualities of a class or group:

    Scotty played center field as a quick, prototypical lead-off hitter.

    The International Harvester Farmall letter series, well-built and affordable, became an iconic symbol of the prototypical American small-farm tractor.

  3. Biology. being a primitive form regarded as the basis of a group; archetypal:

    She graduated with a degree in biology, having conducted her senior thesis research on virulence factors of vaccinia, the prototypical poxvirus.



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