ATAVISM in a Sentence

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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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1  The doctors ascribed the child's deformity to an atavism.