Associations to the word «Lusus»

Wiktionary

LUSUS NATURAE, noun. A freak of nature.
LUSUS NATURÆ, noun. (historical) (originally) A supposed capricious act of Nature regarded as the cause and origin of marked phænotypic anomalies in a given organism.
LUSUS NATURÆ, noun. (chiefly in this concrete sense) An organism exhibiting marked phænotypic deviation from the norm, seeming to be the result of sportive design.
LUSÛS NATURÆ, noun. Plural form of lusus naturæ

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