We found 23 dictionaries that define the word
atavistic:
General (16 matching dictionaries)
- atavistic: Merriam-Webster
- atavistic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
- atavistic: Collins English Dictionary
- atavistic: Vocabulary.com
- Atavistic, atavistic: Wordnik
- atavistic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- atavistic: Wiktionary
- atavistic: Infoplease Dictionary
- atavistic: Dictionary.com
- atavistic: Rhymezone
- atavistic: FreeDictionary.org
- atavistic: Mnemonic Dictionary
- atavistic: TheFreeDictionary.com
- atavistic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- atavistic: Encyclopedia
Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
- atavistic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
- online medical dictionary (No longer online)
- atavistic: Medical dictionary
Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
- atavistic: Wordcraft Dictionary
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
- Atavistic: Urban Dictionary
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atavism as well.)
▸ adjective: (biology) Of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to a chance recombination of genes.
▸ adjective: Of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism.
▸ adjective: Relating to earlier, more primitive behavior that returns after an absence.
throwback,
regressive,
secondary,
homeochronous,
peripatric,
autozygous,
site-faithful,
homochronous,
idioadaptive,
tetraparalogous,
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