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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



... living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. It is credited by many of the elder zoologists with a certain vestigial docility acquired in a former state of seclusion, but naturalists of the postsusananthony period, having no knowledge of the seclusion, deny the virtue and declare that such as creation's dawn beheld, it roareth ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce


Words linked to "Vestigial" :   rudimentary, biological science, undeveloped, biology


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