mutant

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While the New X-Men duel with Belasco's forces in Limbo an enigmatic girl makes her appearance, but why is she the spitting image of a certain Russian mutant who supposedly died years ago?

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

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  • And to participate, for a mutant, there is a minimum of exercise, a minimum of sport. —  Philippe Starck thinks deep on design
  • While the New X-Men duel with Belasco's forces in Limbo an enigmatic girl makes her appearance, but why is she the spitting image of a certain Russian mutant who supposedly died years ago? —  Playback:stl Syndication
  • You DO know he was a lifelong elite athlete who has superior genetics and can be described as a mutant, right? —  CrossFit: Forging Elite Fitness
  • Draper is not only a vicious killer but he's also an admitted mutant, the term I use for —  MyCrimeSpace
  • However, routine nucleic acid hybridization assays require about 15-20\% of a drug-resistant strain in a culture to qualify as a mutant isolate. —  MicrobiologyBytes
 

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  1. Latin mūtāns, mūtant-, present participle of mūtāre, to change; see mutate.

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  1. from Latin mutan(t-)s, present participle of mutare, change: see mute, mutate.
 

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/ˈmjutənt/
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