iconic

adjective4

1. •
   Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon.
2. •
   Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity.
3. •
   (figurative) Famously and distinctively representative of its type.

   • For younger musicians, Coltrane’s death became one of those iconic events that stays vividly in the mind. — 1983
4. •
   Representing something; symbolic.

   • A portrait of a person is to a considerable extent iconic, but is not completely so since the painted canvas does not have the texture of the skin, or the capacities for speech and motion, […] — 1955