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Noun
en-noun

1. the reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence. Often also refered to as a throwback.
2. the recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.

Translations
trans-top|reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
Albanian: atavizëm
Czech: atavismus m
Finnish: t-|fi|atavismi
French: atavisme
German: Atavismus m (1)
Ido: atavismo
Norwegian: atavisme m
trans-mid
trans-bottom

Derived terms
atavist
atavistic

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