Associations to the word «Atavist»

Wiktionary

ATAVIST, noun. A genetic characteristic emerging after absence from several generations.

Dictionary definition

ATAVIST, noun. An organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism.

Wise words

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery