vestige
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈvɛ.stɪd͡ʒ/
vestige (plural vestiges)
- The mark of the foot left on the earth.
- Synonyms: trace, sign, track, footstep
- (by extension) A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present.
- Synonyms: remains
- the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra
- vestiges of former population
- (biology) A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.
- 1904 Transactions of the […] annual session, Volume 40, Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, p160
- Any person seeing such a condition could not help being frightened at the conditions found, and it seems to me that that fact should lead us to think that the appendix is a vestige or becoming so.
- 1932 John Arthur Thomson, Riddles of science, Ayer Publishing, p824
- Now this paired organ of Jacobsen began in reptiles and is well developed in many mammals. But in man it is a vestige, often disappearing altogether; and the two openings are closed.
- 2007 R. Randal Bollingera, Andrew S. Barbasa, Errol L. Busha, Shu S. Lina, & William Parkera, "Biofilms in the large bowel suggest an apparent function of the human vermiform appendix," Journal of Theoretical Biology
- This idea was confirmed by Scott, who performed a detailed comparative analysis of primate anatomy and demonstrated conclusively that the appendix is derived for some unidentified function and is not a vestige.
- 1904 Transactions of the […] annual session, Volume 40, Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, p160
- German: Spur
- Italian: traccia, segno, strascico, impronta, marchio
- Portuguese: vestígio, marca, pegada
- Russian: след
- Spanish: huella, pisada
- German: Überrest, Überbleibsel
- Italian: vestigia
- Portuguese: vestígio
- Russian: пережи́ток
- Spanish: vestigio
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