adjective

• 1Relating to or resembling a totem or totems.

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  • ‘the approach to the house and museum is flanked by wide-eyed, totemic figures’

  1. 1.1Regarded as being symbolic or representative of a particular quality or concept.
     ‘the totemic image of Bogart represents an immutably powerful mystique’
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     • ‘each country has honoured its totemic political figure’
     • ‘its destruction became totemic of the horrors of the Blitz’