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Throwback   /θrˈoʊbˌæk/   Listen
Throwback

noun
1.
An organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism.  Synonym: atavist.
2.
A reappearance of an earlier characteristic.  Synonyms: atavism, reversion.
adjective
1.
Characteristic of an atavist.  Synonym: atavistic.





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"Throwback" Quotes from Famous Books



... nearly a century of this intermixing of bloods, was a throwback—a white man, so far as his skin and his hair and his eyes went. In other physical ways he held to the type of his half-strain Eskimo mother, except in size. He was six feet, and a giant in strength. ...
— The Golden Snare • James Oliver Curwood


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