atavism /atˈə-vi-zm/

1. The reappearance of ancestral, but not parental, characteristics
2. Reversion to an ancestral, or to a primitive, type

atavistˈic adjective

atavistˈically adverb

• animalcular
• animalcule
• Aesculapian
• Aesculapius
• aesculin
• aesculins
• Aesculus
• aesir
• aestheses
• aesthesia
• aesthesias
• aesthesiogen
• aesthesiogenic
• aesthesiogens
• aesthesis
• aesthete
• aesthetes
• aesthetic
• aesthetical
• aesthetically
• aesthetician
• aestheticians
• aestheticise
• aestheticised
• aestheticises