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Throwback   /θrˈoʊbˌæk/   Listen
noun
throwback  n.  
1.
The reappearance in an organism of characteristics of an earlier ancestral type; atavism.
2.
An organisms having characteristics of an earlier ancestral type.





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"Throwback" Quotes from Famous Books



... an interesting instance of a throwback, which appears to be both physical and spiritual. A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the doctrine of reincarnation. The fellow is a ...
— Hound of the Baskervilles • Authur Conan Doyle


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