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prototypic

a. Of or pertaining to a prototype; prototypical

WordNet
prototypic

adj. representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned; "archetypal patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist" [syn: archetypal, archetypical, prototypal, prototypical]

Usage examples of "prototypic".

He dismissed Diamond as a prototypic American, one whose view of honor and dignity was circumscribed by lust for gain.

It is revealing of the American culture that its prototypic hero is the cowboy: an uneducated, boorish, Victorian migrant agricultural worker.

A little prototypic nerd chic could actually lend a certain frisson, around here.