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throwback
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun throwback has 2 senses
- throwback(n = noun.person) atavist - an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism; Array is a kind of being, organism
- throwback(n = noun.event) atavism, reversion - a reappearance of an earlier characteristic; Array is a kind of recurrence, return
Adjective throwback has 1 sense
- throwback(s = adj.all) atavistic - characteristic of an atavist; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
throwback, n.
- the reappearance in an organism of characteristics of an earlier ancestral type; atavism. [PJC]
- an organisms having characteristics of an earlier ancestral type. [PJC]
THESAURUS
throwback
atavism, backset, backsliding, backward deviation, backward motion, backward step, check, comedown, descent, down, falling back, lapse, reaction, recession, recidivation, recidivism, recrudescence, recurrence, reentry, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, relapse, renewal, retroaction, retrocession, retroflexion, retrogradation, retrogression, retrusion, return, reversal, reverse, reverse of fortune, reversion, rollback, setback, severe check, sternway
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