"hopeful monster" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined by German biologist Richard Goldschmidt.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hopeful monsters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hopeful monster (plural hopeful monsters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Evolutionary theory",
          "orig": "en:Evolutionary theory",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An organism exhibiting a significant mutation that may form a new lineage according to macromutation theory."
      ],
      "id": "en-hopeful_monster-en-noun-BMecItEA",
      "links": [
        [
          "evolutionary theory",
          "evolutionary theory"
        ],
        [
          "organism",
          "organism"
        ],
        [
          "mutation",
          "mutation"
        ],
        [
          "lineage",
          "lineage"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "evolutionary theory",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(evolutionary theory) An organism exhibiting a significant mutation that may form a new lineage according to macromutation theory."
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "an organism exhibiting a significant mutation that may form a new lineage",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "monstro esperançoso"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Richard Goldschmidt"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hopeful monster"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined by German biologist Richard Goldschmidt.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hopeful monsters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hopeful monster (plural hopeful monsters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Evolutionary theory"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An organism exhibiting a significant mutation that may form a new lineage according to macromutation theory."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "evolutionary theory",
          "evolutionary theory"
        ],
        [
          "organism",
          "organism"
        ],
        [
          "mutation",
          "mutation"
        ],
        [
          "lineage",
          "lineage"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "evolutionary theory",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(evolutionary theory) An organism exhibiting a significant mutation that may form a new lineage according to macromutation theory."
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Richard Goldschmidt"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "an organism exhibiting a significant mutation that may form a new lineage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "monstro esperançoso"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hopeful monster"
}