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Vestigial   /vəstˈɪdʒiəl/   Listen
Vestigial

adjective
1.
Not fully developed in mature animals.  Synonym: rudimentary.





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"Vestigial" Quotes from Famous Books



... old-fashioned homilies, delivered twice every Sunday in the year, on love, charity, pure living, clean thinking, early marriage, and the mutual duties of parents towards their children and of children towards their parents. 'In the Rev. Mr. Smith,' remarks our author, 'we have a striking vestigial specimen of an ...
— The Patient Observer - And His Friends • Simeon Strunsky
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... and warble-flies have the jaws so far reduced that they are unable to feed, and the parasitic life of the maggot (see p. 74) extending over eight or nine months in the body of the horse or ox, prepares for a winged existence of probably but a few days. Again in many moths the jaws are reduced or vestigial so that no food can be taken in the winged state, as for example in the 'Eggars' (Lasiocampidae) and the 'Tussocks' (Lymantriidae). It is noteworthy that in these short-lived insects the male is often provided ...
— The Life-Story of Insects • Geo. H. Carpenter
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Words linked to "Vestigial" :   undeveloped, biology, biological science


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