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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
throwback
adj : 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]
2: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic [syn: atavism,
reversion]
WordNet (r) 2.0
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "throwback":
atavism, backset, backsliding, backward deviation, backward motion,
backward step, check, comedown, descent, down, falling back, lapse,
reaction, recession, recidivation, recidivism, recrudescence,
recurrence, reentry, refluence, reflux, regress, regression,
relapse, renewal, retroaction, retrocession, retroflexion,
retrogradation, retrogression, retrusion, return, reversal,
reverse, reverse of fortune, reversion, rollback, setback,
severe check, sternway
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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