Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to teratology.
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- adjective (Biol.) Of or pertaining to teratology.
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- adjective teratology Of or relating to
teratology . - adjective teratology Of
abnormal growth or structure of afetus orembryo .
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Examples
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But then all sorts of seemingly sudden variations are occasionally designated by the same term by one writer or another, and even accidental anomalies, such as teratological ascidia, are often said to arise by sports.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Doctor too ordinary for teratological servicing pro.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Making Monsters - Geoff Nicholson Blue Tyson 2007
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Doctor too ordinary for teratological servicing pro.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Dark Terrors 4 - Stephen Jones and David Sutton Blue Tyson 2007
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In the interest of coming generations I suggest that the parts affected should be preserved in spirits of wine in the national teratological museum.
Ulysses 2003
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The savages bestrode them easily, just over the beasts 'middle pelvis, high-stirruped but without reins, and indeed far too far from the slashing, screaming heads to make reins even possible-rode so easily that in silhouette, savage and beast flowed into one teratological myth, like Siamese-twin centaurs.
Anywhen Blish, James 1970
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This is the first degree of an artist of teratological development, which, since the middle ages, has become very marked in certain subjects, and has given rise to a variety in which this defect has become hereditary.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 Various
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But many of these breeds are also the result of accident, or rather of modifications of certain parts of the organism -- of a sort of rachitic or teratological degeneration which has become hereditary and has been due to domestication; for it is proved that the dog is the most anciently domesticated animal, and that its submission to man dates back to more than five thousand years.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 Various
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Phyllotaxis, which need not be entered into fully here; but in order the better to estimate the teratological changes which take place, it may be well to allude to the following circumstances relating to the alternation of parts.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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He saw the relation of teratological to foetal structure, for he affirmed that "malformations are only persistent foetal conditions" (p. 492).
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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His teratological work is important, and is chiefly contained in the second volume of the _Philosophie anatomique_.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
knitandpurl commented on the word teratological
"Marine creatures—sea cucumbers, shreds of squid, faded coral—or perhaps the morbid figments of some artist's teratological imagination. Yves Tanguy?
From The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco, translated by Geoffrey Brock, p 168
December 17, 2007