applanate

[ap-luh-neyt, a-pley-neyt]

adjective Biology.

having a horizontally flattened form.

Origin:
< Neo-Latin applānātus flattened; see ap-¹, planate

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Applanate is always a great word to know.

So is atavism. Does it mean:

reproduction in which the offspring resemble the parents and undergo the same cycle of development

the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations

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