What is the meaning of Typus?

archaic form of typ

figure, image bas-relief ground-plan a mystical figure or symbol, a prefiguration or portent

bas-relief

ground-plan

a mystical figure or symbol, a prefiguration or portent

type, form, sort, kind

a coin die

a printing form or font die literature, printed material, books a printing house, a printery

literature, printed material, books

a printing house, a printery

When it is the specific epithet of a binomial name, indicates it is the type species.

alternative spelling of typhus; a form, type, or character of a fever A periodic fever.

A periodic fever.

Source: Wiktionary