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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An individual, organism, or new genetic character arising or resulting from mutation.
  2. n. Slang One that is suggestive of a genetic mutant, as in bizarre appearance or inaptitude.
  3. adj. Resulting from or undergoing mutation: a mutant strain of bacteria.
  4. adj. Slang Suggestive of a genetic mutant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In entomology, said of a perpendicular part the apex of which bends over.
  2. Of, pertaining to, or by means of mutation.
  3. n. In biology, a race or an individual organism that has arisen through mutation. See mutation, 8.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Something which has mutated, which has one or more new characteristics from a mutation.
  2. n. informal Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
  3. adj. That has undergone mutation.
  4. adj. informal Strange, abnormal, or bizarre.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an animal that has undergone mutation
  2. adj. tending to undergo or resulting from mutation
  3. n. (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

Etymologies

  1. Latin mutans, present participle of mutare. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin mūtāns, mūtant-, present participle of mūtāre, to change; see mutate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  3. fungal
  4. aquatic
  5. polymorphic
  1. recessive
  2. resistant
  3. airborne
  4. humanoid
  5. bacterial
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  2. parasitic
  3. albino
  4. flesh-eating
  5. long-lived
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  1. revertant
  2. suppressor
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  2. suppresser
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  2. suppressor gene
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  2. autosomal dominant disease
  1. autosomal dominant disorder
  2. autosomal recessive defect
  1. autosomal recessive disease

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