atavism / ˈæt əˌvɪz əm /

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atavism 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. Biology. the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations.an individual embodying such a reversion.
  2. reversion to an earlier type; throwback.

atavism 近义词

atavism

等同于 reversion

atavism 的近义词 5
atavism 的反义词 1
atavism

等同于 regression

atavism

等同于 retrogradation

更多atavism例句

  1. He’s all too ready, he’s been waiting to ascend the throne so long that at times in his behavior and manner he seems older than his mother, to have floated back into some haven of atavism that is far more agreeable than the twenty-first century.
  2. No democratic state can tolerate this kind of self-segregation and religious atavism funded at public expense.
  3. "Atavism can hardly explain a roaming animal with teeth and claws and sanguinary instincts," interrupted Maloney with impatience.
  4. Atavism, perhaps, the content to be just man again, following mans instinct to survive among the fittest.
  5. Perforce, because he was born in our horde he stayed with us; but in actuality he was an atavism and his place was elsewhere.
  6. The instinct of love is, I suppose, so fiercely primitive in us that under its tyranny we are subjected to some moral atavism.
  7. Besides, I've got a lake up there in which we can indulge in a little atavism to the fish stage of evolution.