vestigial
IPA: vʌstˈɪdʒiʌɫ
noun
- (biology) A small, degenerate, or imperfectly developed part or organ which has been more fully developed in some past generation.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a trace from the past.
- Not fully developed in mature animals.
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Examples of "vestigial" in Sentences
- Of course the appendix is vestigial.
- In some cases, the wings are vestigial.
- The wing sometimes has vestigial claws.
- The inner toe on each foot is vestigial.
- The Article says that there are vestigial limbs.
- The developmental tail is thus a human vestigial structure.
- The engineering compromise is vestigial sideband modulation.
- The forest is a vestigial survival of the last glacial period.
- The appeal is a vestigial remnant of an appeal to the sovereign in person.
- The presence of these kind of vestigial structures is known as an atavism.
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