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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



... least a twelvemonth later, as Lilly was rushing down from the children's department of one of Broadway's gigantic cut-rate department stores, she stopped so abruptly that she created a little throwback in the ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst
... throwback from their weakness, their bitterness, and the suppression of their vitality. But above all it was an indication of the storms brewing all around them. Theorists are like meteorologists: they state in scientific terms not what the weather will be, but what the weather is. They are weathercocks pointing ...
— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland
... industry and commerce, literature and philosophy. We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd. Now to what do we owe this distinctive character? To some throwback of atavism, men tell us. Heredity, direct in one case, remote in another, hands it down to us, increased or modified by time. Search the records of the family and you will discover the source of the genius, a mere trickle at first, then a ...
— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre


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