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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: tending to undergo or resulting from mutation; "a mutant gene" n
1: (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration [syn: mutant, mutation, variation, sport]
2: an animal that has undergone mutation

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin mutant-, mutans, present participle of mutare Date: 1903 of, relating to, or produced by mutation • mutant noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. resulting from mutation. --n. a mutant form. Etymology: L mutant- part. f. mutare change

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(mutants) A mutant is an animal or plant that is physically different from others of the same species because of a change in its genes. = mutation N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

altered, avatar, better, catabolism, catalysis, changeable, changed, consubstantiation, converted, degenerate, deviant, displacement, divergent, heterotopia, improved, metabolism, metagenesis, metamorphism, metamorphosed, metamorphosis, metastasis, metastasized, metathesis, metempsychosis, modified, mutated form, mutation, permutation, qualified, rebuilt, reformed, reincarnation, renewed, revived, revolutionary, sport, subversive, transanimation, transfiguration, transfigurement, transformation, transformed, transformism, translated, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmogrification, transmutation, transmuted, transposition, transubstantiation, unmitigated, worse