Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or of the nature of an antitype.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Antitypical.
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- adjective
antitypical
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Examples
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We still see remaining an antitypal sketch of a wing adapted for flight in the scaly flapper of the penguin, and limbs first concealed beneath the skin, and then weakly protruding from it, were the necessary gradations before others should be formed fully adapted for locomotion.
On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species 2004
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We still see remaining an antitypal sketch of a wing adapted for flight in the scaly flapper of the penguin, and limbs first concealed beneath the skin, and then weakly protruding from it, were the necessary gradations before others should be formed fully adapted for locomotion. [
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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