The phrase "a peculiar trait of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a distinctive characteristic or quality associated with a person, group, or thing.
Example: "Her ability to solve complex problems quickly is a peculiar trait of her analytical mind."
Alternatives: "an unusual characteristic of" or "a distinctive feature of".
Other amateur athletes dream of being better than they are, but a peculiar trait of basement Ping-Pong players is that they think they're better than they are.
Thus high stability of PSII supercomplexes appears to be a peculiar trait of P. patens, and is similar to recent results found for Inga sapindoides [41].
These higher indexes, together with URI and TRI, should be interpreted as if Hypnomys possessed relatively more elongated zygopodes than E. q. ophiusae, a peculiar trait of the genus.
Furthermore, a major peculiar trait of mitochondrial genome in some bivalve species is the presence of an alternative pattern of mitochondrial inheritance known as Doubly Uniparental Inheritance or DUI [ 16- 20], that involves two separate lineages of mtDNAs.
I disliked the latter song back then, and even more so now, for McCartney's mixture of cleverness and cloyingness, a peculiar trait that not even the abrasive Lennon could temper.
Even in war, chaplains are always overly positive – a peculiar trait I've only ever seen replicated on the faces of LA store attendants and quietly suicidal kids' TV presenters.
For example, a distinct upregulation of the mammalian target of rapamycin (m-TOR) has emerged as a peculiar trait associated with disease recurrence in independent cohorts (Dhillon et al, 2010; Gately et al, 2012).
To understand this peculiar trait of Russian foreign policy one doesn't have to be a Kremlinologist.
The other peculiar trait of the modern adolescent is, according to Dr. Lindner, "the abandonment of that solitude which was at once the trademark of adolescence and the source of its deepest despairs as of its dubious ecstasies.
This peculiar trait of food crop farmers can stifle the future development of the food crop subsector in Ghana.
In contrast, the peculiar trait of the first case suggested that her rate of aging was dramatically delayed or even arrested.
