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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In biology, an organic being which exhibits atavism.

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  1. n. A genetic characteristic emerging after absence from several generations.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism

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