Sentence example with the word 'atavistic'

atavistic

aboriginal, coeval, genetic, incarnate, native, physical, prime, pristine, recidivous, returnable, temperamental

Definition adj. characteristic of an atavist

Last update: August 13, 2015

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The bird’s unusually large beak was an atavistic mutation that had previously only been seen in primitive bird species.   [Please select]

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Except in some of the Stegocephalia, there are only four functional digits in the manus, but the Ecaudata have a more or less distinct rudiment of pollex; in the Caudata it seems to be the outer digit which has been suppresssed, as atavistic reappearance of a fifth digit takes place on the outer side of the manus, as it does on the pes in those forms in which the toes are reduced to four.   [Please select]

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They were no longer doing a stunt, they were atavistic.   [Please select]

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Hatred, fury, malice, blind, atavistic passions distorted her face.   [Please select]

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My atavistic and wilder instincts warn me that somebody is coming.   [Please select]

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Thus "the unconscious" becomes a sort of underground prisoner, living in a dungeon, breaking in at long intervals upon our daylight respectability with dark groans and maledictions and strange atavistic lusts.   [Please select]

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