Dictionary entry

Monstrosity

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mon‐stros″i‐ty (?), n.; pl.Monstrosities (#). [Cf. F. monstruosité. See Monstrous.] The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature; that which is monstrous; a monster. South.

A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species. Adanson (Trans.).