Biology. 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, typ·ic.
Origin: 1605–15; < Medieval Latin typicālis, equivalent to Late Latin typic(us) (< Greek typikós, equivalent to týp(os) type + -ikos-ic) + Latin -ālis-al1