throwback

3 definitions found

throwback - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

throwback - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  throwback
      adj 1: 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,
           throwback]
      2: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic [syn: atavism,
         reversion, throwback]

throwback - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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