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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism;
[syn: atavist, throwback]

2. a reappearance of an earlier characteristic;
[syn: atavism, reversion, throwback]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. characteristic of an atavist;
[syn: atavistic, throwback(a)]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

throwback \throw"back\, n.
   1. the reappearance in an organism of characteristics of an
      earlier ancestral type; atavism.
      [PJC]

   2. an organisms having characteristics of an earlier
      ancestral type.
      [PJC]
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

throwback
    adj 1: characteristic of an atavist [syn: atavistic,
           throwback(a)]
    n 1: an organism that has the characteristics of a more
         primitive type of that organism [syn: atavist,
         throwback]
    2: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic [syn: atavism,
       reversion, throwback]