Archetype
(n.) The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.
(n.) The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.
(n.) 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.
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Archebiosis Arched Archegonial Archegonium Archegony Archelogy Archencephala Archenemy Archenteric Archenteron