ATAVISM in a Sentence
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Example sentences for ATAVISM, such as:
1. The doctors ascribed the child's deformity to an atavism.
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Meanings and Examples of ATAVISM
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atavism
n. resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; deformity returning after passage of two or more generations
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Example Sentence:
1 The doctors ascribed the child's deformity to an atavism.