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单词 mutant
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mutant

Now there is huge demand for mutant animals.A force of mutant heroes defends the human race.While mice are normally social animals, the mutant mice showed little or no interest in other mice that were unfamiliar to them.You probably don't know it but it is highly likely that you carry a mutant gene that is responsible for a serious disease.If two different mutant genes on the same chromosome were passed through males, they always appeared together in flies of the next generation.She also happens to carry the mutant gene for Huntington's disease.Their productions are not just monstrous, but often take ugliness to a baroque extreme, suggesting mutant animals.It will then reproduce itself by leaving copies of its genes -- including the beneficial mutant gene -- in the next generation.

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mutant

British English: mutant NOUN
A mutant is an animal or plant that is physically different from others of the same species because of a change in its genes.
New species are merely mutants of earlier ones.
  • American English: mutant
  • Brazilian Portuguese: mutante
  • Chinese: 突变体 
  • European Spanish: mutante
  • French: mutant
  • German: Mutante
  • Italian: mutante ()
  • Japanese: 突然変異体
  • Korean: 돌연변이
  • European Portuguese: mutante
  • Latin American Spanish: mutante

(noun) 
Definition
an animal, organism, or gene that has undergone mutation
He will play the part of Magneto, a mutant.
Synonyms
freak
I'm tired of them treating me like a freak just because we have different interests.
monster
She keeps me hidden like some hideous monster she's ashamed of.
mutation
Scientists have found a genetic mutation that causes the disease.
deviant
a dangerous deviant who caused trouble
oddity
the oddities of the Welsh legal system
monstrosity
The towering figure looked like some monstrosity from a sci-fi movie.
freak of nature
lusus naturae
(adjective) 
Definition
of or resulting from mutation
stories about strange mutant beasts
Synonyms
freakish
crooked
the crooked line of his broken nose
distorted
His face was distorted but recognizable.
warped
deformed
He was born with a deformed right leg.
misshapen
baskets of misshapen vegetables

Additional synonyms

in the sense of crooked
Definition
bent or twisted
the crooked line of his broken nose
Synonyms
bent,
twisted,
bowed,
curved,
irregular,
warped,
deviating,
out of shape,
misshapen
in the sense of deformed
Definition
disfigured or misshapen
He was born with a deformed right leg.
Synonyms
distorted,
bent,
twisted,
crooked,
warped,
maimed,
marred,
mangled,
disfigured,
misshapen,
malformed,
misbegotten
in the sense of deviant
Definition
a person whose behaviour deviates from what is considered to be acceptable
a dangerous deviant who caused trouble
Synonyms
misfit,
odd type,
pervert,
freak,
sicko (informal)

Nearby words of
mutant

  • musty
  • mutability
  • mutable
  • mutant
  • mutate
  • mutation
  • mute

Synonyms of 'mutant'

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Additional synonyms

in the sense of distorted
His face was distorted but recognizable.
Synonyms
deformed,
bent,
twisted,
crooked,
irregular,
warped,
buckled,
disfigured,
contorted,
misshapen
in the sense of misshapen
Definition
badly shaped
baskets of misshapen vegetables
Synonyms
twisted,
deformed,
crippled,
distorted,
ugly,
crooked,
warped,
grotesque,
wry,
unsightly,
contorted,
ungainly,
malformed,
ill-made,
unshapely,
ill-proportioned
in the sense of monster
Definition
a person, animal, or plant with a marked deformity
She keeps me hidden like some hideous monster she's ashamed of.
Synonyms
freak,
mutant,
monstrosity,
lusus naturae,
miscreation,
teratism
in the sense of monstrosity
Definition
an outrageous or ugly person or thing
The towering figure looked like some monstrosity from a sci-fi movie.
Synonyms
freak,
horror (informal),
monster,
mutant,
ogre,
lusus naturae,
miscreation,
teratism
in the sense of mutation
Definition
a physical characteristic in an organism resulting from this type of chromosomal change
Scientists have found a genetic mutation that causes the disease.
Synonyms
anomaly,
variation,
deviant (old-fashioned),
freak of nature
in the sense of oddity
Definition
a peculiar characteristic
the oddities of the Welsh legal system
Synonyms
irregularity,
phenomenon,
anomaly,
freak,
abnormality,
rarity,
quirk,
eccentricity,
kink,
peculiarity,
idiosyncrasy,
singularity,
unorthodoxy,
unconventionality
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