Throwback

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  throwback \throw"back\, n.
     1. the reappearance in an organism of characteristics of an
        earlier ancestral type; atavism.
        [PJC]
  
     2. an organisms having characteristics of an earlier


        ancestral type.
        [PJC]
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  throwback
       adj : characteristic of an atavist [syn: {atavistic}, {throwback(a)}]
       n 1: an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive
            type of that organism [syn: {atavist}]
       2: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic [syn: {atavism},
           {reversion}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "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