sport of nature

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin lusus naturae

Noun

sport of nature (plural sports of nature)

  1. (now historical) A natural object which by pure chance resembles some other thing.
    • 1875, Charles Lyell, The Principles of Geology, volume 1, page 37:
      The dogma that organized fossils were mere sports of nature.
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