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hopeful monster: Meaning and Definition of
hope'ful mon'ster
Pronunciation: [key]
— Biol. Biol.
- a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
