返祖
fǎn​zǔ

atavism

  • created sense approved 返祖 · fǎn​zǔ · atavism — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    返祖

    fǎn​zǔ

    atavism

    reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an individual after being absent in intervening generations

    返 (literal) → 返 · fǎn · to return 祖 (literal) → 祖 · zǔ · ancestor

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense