textbook

Meanings

Noun

• A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
• Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.

Origin

• text + book