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Definition or meaning of the English word Atavism
The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation; after an intermission for a generation or two. (n.).
The recurrence; or a tendency to a recurrence; of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form. (n.).
