| 单词 | hopeful monster |
| 释义 | hopeful monsternoun Biology.a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution. Origin of hopeful monsterFirst recorded in 1933; phrase introduced by German geneticist Richard B. Goldschmidt (1879–1958) Words nearby hopeful monsterHope, Bob, hope chest, Hope diamond, hopeful, hopefully, hopeful monster, Hopeh, hopeless, hopelessness, Hope springs eternal, Hopewell Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 |
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