(แอท'ทะวิสซึม) n. การปรากฏลักษณะของบรรพบุรุษที่ขาดหายไปบางชั่วคน, สัตว์หรือพืชที่มีลักษณะดังกล่าว, การกลับคืนมาของลักษณะดังกล่าว. -atavist n. (reversion to an earlier type)
n. [ L. atavus an ancestor, fr. avus a grandfather. ] 1.(a) The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form. (b) (Biol.) The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two. [ 1913 Webster ]
Now and then there occur cases of what physiologists call atavism, or reversion to an ancestral type of character. J. Fiske [ 1913 Webster ]
2. recurrence of or reversion to a past style, outlook, approach, or manner. [ PJC ]
adj. 1.1 displaying characteristics of a previous cultural era or of a previous ancestral form; displaying atavism Syn. -- atavic, throwback(prenominal) [ WordNet 1.5 ]
‖n. [ L., he has wasted. ] (Law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. patavinitas, fr. Patavium: cf. F. patavinité ] The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity. [ 1913 Webster ]
[hàn tā bìng dú, ㄏㄢˋ ㄊㄚ ㄅㄧㄥˋ ㄉㄨˊ, 汉他病毒 / 漢他病毒] Hantavirus (a family deadly rodent-borne viruses) responsible for hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome or cardiopulmonary syndrome [Add to Longdo]
[hàn tǎn bìng dú, ㄏㄢˋ ㄊㄢˇ ㄅㄧㄥˋ ㄉㄨˊ, 汉坦病毒 / 漢坦病毒] Hantavirus (a family deadly rodent-borne viruses) responsible for hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome or cardiopulmonary syndrome [Add to Longdo]
[hanpubakkubattofisshu] (n) humpback batfish (Platax batavianus, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish found from Madagascar to Indonesia and Australia) [Add to Longdo]
[かくせいいでん, kakuseiiden] (n, adj-no) atavism; throwback; reappearance of an earlier characteristic; skipping a generation; reversion to ancestral type [Add to Longdo]
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