fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.-bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.-conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.-serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.-similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.-giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge.  see presentative, 3 and represent, 8.-one who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.-an agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.-one who represents, or stands in the place of, another.-a member of the lower or popular house in a state legislature, or in the national congress.-that which presents the full character of the type of a group.-a species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.