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ATAVISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A reappearance of an earlier characteristic
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("atavism" is a kind of...):
recurrence; return (happening again (especially at regular intervals))
Derivation:
atavist (an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism)
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