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prototypical
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Adjective prototypical has 1 sense
- prototypical(s = adj.all) archetypal, archetypical, prototypal, prototypic - representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned; "archetypal patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist" Derived form noun prototype1
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