typical

Etymology

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.

adj

1. Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
2. Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
3. Normal, average; to be expected.
   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. 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
4. (taxonomy) Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon.
   Celticecis species are definitely known only from the typical subgenus of Celtis, distributed through much of the Holarctic Region. September 9, 2013, 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

noun

1. 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.