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# mutant

«mutant» in Mova's school dictionary: **a living thing whose genes have changed, so it is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a mutant, mutants); adjective (mutant)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A mutant is a living thing whose genes have changed, so it is different from its parents in some way, like a white tiger or a plant with odd leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutant/#m1)

2) In science fiction and comics, mutants are characters with strange bodies or superpowers, like the X-Men or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutant/#m2)

3) (informal) «Mutant» can be a joking word for anything odd-looking: «a mutant carrot». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutant/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about genes, variation and evolution; in stories and cartoons for superheroes and monsters. Phrases: «mutant gene», «mutant strain», «Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles».

### examples

- A white tiger is a mutant with a changed colour gene. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutant/#x1)
- Scientists studied mutant fruit flies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutant/#x2)
- The X-Men are a team of mutants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutant/#x3)
- We grew a mutant carrot with three legs! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutant/#x4)
- Some mutants are healthy and some are not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutant/#x5)
- A mutant virus can spread differently. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutant/#x6)
- The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles love pizza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutant/#x7)
- In the comic, mutant powers appeared when the hero turned thirteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutant/#x8)

### note

Countable. Related words: mutate (change), mutation (the change). Myth: real mutations do not give superpowers; most are small or have no effect. Mutation is a normal part of how living things vary.

### In the corpora

- [There are no giant mutants: animals badly harmed in 1986 mostly died young, and the animals seen today are healthy ones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mutant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.