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Freak of nature

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A monstrosity; a malformation; an abnormal organism.
  2. 2
    In the variety-show business, a person or an animal on exhibition as showing some strange deviation from nature, such as a bearded woman or an albino.

    "He read old almanacs at the book-stalls on the quays, and he began to frequent another café, where more newspapers were taken and his post-prandial demi-tasse cost him a penny extra, and where he used to con the tattered sheets for curious anecdotes, freaks of nature, and strange coincidences."

Etymology

From lusus naturae, from Latin lūsus nātūrae (literally “sport of nature”), originally used to explain fossils or abnormalities such as two-headed snakes.

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