typical

English

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.

typical (comparative more typical, superlative most typical)

Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
Hyponym: emblematic
Normal, average; to be expected.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:
  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.
(taxonomy) Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon.
- 2013 September 9, Raymond G. Gagné, John C. Moser, “The North American gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of hackberries (Cannabaceae: Celtis spp.)”, in Memoirs of the American Entomological Society, volume 49:
  Celticecis species are definitely known only from the typical subgenus of Celtis, distributed through much of the Holarctic Region.

capturing the overall sense of a thing

characteristically representing something

normal; to be expected

typical (plural typicals)

Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.
Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.

Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics.