Hypertext Webster Gateway: "throwback"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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