English Explanatory Dictionary

hopeful monster

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An organism exhibiting a significant mutation that may form a new lineage according to macromutation theory.

Word forms

hopeful monster hopeful monsters

Etymology

Coined by German biologist Richard Goldschmidt.

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