vestigial
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8.3
- adjective
- /vɛˈstɪdʒiəl/
- Specialized
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vestigial
- The human appendix is considered a vestigial organ, as it no longer serves a crucial digestive function.
- vestigial remnants
- vestigial organs
The notion is that the structure is vestigial in humans.
- The notion is that the structure is vestigial in humans.
- Hemingway says that bull fighting is the last vestigial sport.
- From that point forward, Commodus hated the vestigial Roman Senate, always remembering the would be murderers barbed words.
- I had this idea of the vestigial pattern bias.
- The networks are still a vestigial survival of the old consensus system.
- That would get rid of any vestigial remains of bin A in all of this process cycle.
Examples
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Branchial anomalies occur as a result of a persistence of vestigial remnants of a branchial cleft or cyst.
Academic text (2009) -
Are they merely vestigial or are they functional?
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But there is still a vestigial attitude that I think is a problem.
Academic text (1999) -
I think it's a vestigial organ.
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The notion is that the structure is vestigial in humans.
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My goal is the destruction of the last vestigial traces of traditional manhood.
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For me, it's just a vestigial reflex, all impulse and no reward.
Fiction book (2002) -
The limbic system is vestigial, and yet his is substantially enlarged.
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It’s a vestigial tail.
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The next generation built on the innovations of its predecessors while discarding their vestigial humanism and vernacular idiom.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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6.8
A body part that is not fully developed and often too small to work
Antonyms
How Developed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word vestigial comes from the Latin vestigium, meaning 'footprint' or 'trace'. So a vestigial part is like a small 'trace' left from an ancestor, a tiny part of something that used to be larger or useful.