What does "archetype" mean?
Archetype: (Coinage) The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.
Additional senses
- 2.(Biol.) The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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