prototypal

Definitions of prototypal
  1. adjective
    representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned
    “she was the prototypal student activist”
    synonyms: archetypal, archetypical, prototypic, prototypical
    first
    preceding all others in time or space or degree
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