atavism ['ætəvizəm]

n.
[生]隔代遗传, 返祖现象

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单词 atavism 网络释义

名词 n.
1.【生】隔代遗传;返祖现象

单词 atavism 其它相关

单词解释
n. 隔代遗传,祖型再现
n. 1> the reappearance of ancestral, but not parental, characteristics
　 2> reversion to an ancestral, or to a primitive, type
相关例句
The doctors ascribed the child's deformity to an atavism.
同义反义
同义词：reversal, retrogression, relapse, reversion, return, throwback, backslide.

单词 atavism 其它例句

- They are explainable as a species of mental atavism.
　 这些都可以解释为一种精神的返祖现象。
- have even read in a book of criminology that the tramp is an atavism, a throw-back to the nomadic stage of humanity.
　 我甚至在一本关于犯罪学的书上读到过流浪是种隔代遗传现象，是向人类之游牧阶段的回归。