Atavism

  • 11atavism —   n. reversion to remote ancestral type; throw back ; recurrence of hereditary feature after an interval of a generation or more.    ♦ atavistic, a. pertaining to remote ancestor.    ♦ atavist, n. person or thing marked by atavism …

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  • 12atavism — atavizmas statusas T sritis augalininkystė apibrėžtis Tolimiems protėviams būdingų, bet išnykusių ir rūšiai nebūdingų požymių ir savybių atsikartojimas palikuonyse. atitikmenys: angl. atavism rus. атавизм …

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  • 13atavism — atavistic ► ADJECTIVE ▪ returning to something ancient or ancestral. DERIVATIVES atavism noun atavistically adverb. ORIGIN from Latin atavus forefather …

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  • 15atavism — n. [L. atavus, ancestor] Recurrence of an ancestral character, after an interval of generations; atavistic adj …

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  • 16atavism — atavist, n. /at euh viz euhm/, n. 1. Biol. a. the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations. b. an individual embodying such a reversion. 2. reversion to an earlier… …

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  • 17atavism — noun a) The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence. b) The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method …

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  • 18atavism — Synonyms and related words: Mnemosyne, aboriginality, affect memory, age, ancien regime, ancientness, anterograde memory, antiquity, backset, backward deviation, cobwebs of antiquity, collective memory, computer memory, disk memory, drum memory,… …

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  • 19atavism — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. throwback, reversion …

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  • 20atavism — at·a·vism || ætÉ™vɪzÉ™m n. appearance of a trait belonging to a distant ancestor that has been dormant in recent generations (Biology) …

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