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Aberrant   /æbˈɛrənt/   Listen
Aberrant

adjective
1.
Markedly different from an accepted norm.  Synonyms: deviant, deviate.  "Deviant ideas"






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"Aberrant" Quotes from Famous Books



... metaphase, respectively, and figures 29, 30, and 31 in anaphase. This is certainly a reduction division, for the tetrads are always somewhat elongated and come into the spindle with their longer axes parallel with the axis of the spindle. The aberrant bodies in these figures are probably remains of the nucleoli; they are found only in iron-haematoxylin preparations. Figures 31 and 32 show exceptional cases where the cell has divided. Usually the two daughter nuclei are formed in an undivided cell. The resting-stage between ...
— Studies in Spermatogenesis (Part 1 of 2) • Nettie Maria Stevens

... structure of their limbs and feet. The same may be said of almost all tree-dwellers except the lemurs and apes. The sloth, indeed, is specially adapted in organization to an arboreal residence, but this change is individual, not tribal, this animal being an aberrant form of the ground-dwelling edentata. In the apes and lemurs, on the contrary, the ground-dwellers are the aberrant forms, stray wanderers from the host. Nearly all the species live in trees, to which they ...
— Man And His Ancestor - A Study In Evolution • Charles Morris



Words linked to "Aberrant" :   anomaly, aberrancy, aberrance, abnormal, unnatural, aberrate, unusual person



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