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Totemic

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to·tem  (ttm)
n.
1.
a. An animal, plant, or natural object serving among certain tribal or traditional peoples as the emblem of a clan or family and sometimes revered as its founder, ancestor, or guardian.
b. A representation of such an object.
c. A social group having a common affiliation to such an object.
2. A venerated emblem or symbol: "grew up with the totems and taboos typical of an Irish Catholic kid in Boston" Connie Paige.
[Ojibwa nindoodem, my totem.]
to·temic (-tmk) adj.
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Adj.1.Totemictotemic - relating to totemism; "totemic object"
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So no one vexed him as he trotted through the winding pathways between the many houses and past the obscene kingposts of totemic heraldry, where the forms of men, carved from single tree trunks, were seated in the gaping jaws of carved sharks.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
Some, covered with obscene totemic figures and designs, were carved from solid tree trunks forty or fifty feet in length.
The Red One by London, Jack View in context
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