reversionary
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of reversionary
Example Sentences
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Diagram to illustrate the appearance of the reversionary blue pigeon in F2 from the cross of black with white.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett
A very long period, however, is required before the lesson can be fully learned, and the holders of Indian securities need not fear that the reversionary interests of their grandchildren will be endangered.
From The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various
And when the owner had refreshed herself, they were many who had a reversionary interest in its contents.
From The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. by John Matthias Weylland
He was a strenuous Tory, and, being attached to heraldrical pursuits, obtained a reversionary patent for the office of Garter, king of arms.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
These several reversionary, as well as the strictly rudimentary, structures reveal the descent of man from some lower form in an unmistakeable manner.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin
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