archetypical
Speech parts
1. archetypical - Adjective
2. archetypical - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Relating to an archetype; archetypal.
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archetypal patterns
she was the prototypal student activist
According to Partridge and the Morrises, the archetypical shaggy dog story involves an advertisement placed in The Times announcing a search for a shaggy dog.
; bête noire: a scary or unpopular person, idea, or thing, or the archetypical scary monster in a story; literally "black beast."
In contrast to gram-positive bacteria, all archetypical gram-negative bacteria are bounded by a cytoplasmic membrane and an outer cell membrane; they contain only a thin layer of peptidoglycan (2–3 nm) between these membranes.
In contrast to gram-positive bacteria, all archetypical gram-negative bacteria have a cytoplasmic membrane as well as an outer cell membrane, and contain only a thin layer of peptidoglycan (2–3 nm) between the membranes.