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Lusus naturae Moderate

Lusus naturae has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed

2

A sportive quality in Nature to which abnormal forms were formerly ascribed; a supposed capricious act of Nature regarded as the cause and origin of anomalies in a given organism.

See Also
freak nature sportive
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
mutant
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
leviathan
Rhyming Words
rae brae prae grae marae morae horae dirae mcrae mccrae kosrae macrae moirae menurae aurorae amphorae tenebrae tesserae hetaerae dies irae
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