"freak of nature" meaning in English

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        "A monstrosity; a malformation; an abnormal organism."
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          "word": "aberration"
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          "word": "abnormality"
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          "word": "anomaly"
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          "word": "deformity"
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          "word": "freak"
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        {
          "word": "monster"
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        {
          "word": "mutant"
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          "word": "mutation"
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          "word": "oddity"
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          "sense": "monstrosity",
          "word": "luonnonoikku"
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        "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."
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          "bearded woman",
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      "sense": "monstrosity",
      "word": "luonnonoikku"
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  "word": "freak of nature"
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