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Lusus naturae

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.

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noun
  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    An organism exhibiting marked such deviation from the norm, seeming to be the result of sportive design; a freak of nature.

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