What is to return, wholly or in part, towards some preëxistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type called?
revert — (Biol.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preëxistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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