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vestigial
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
Learner's definition of VESTIGIAL
1
technical, of a body part : remaining in a form that is not fully developed or able to function退化的
- Although it cannot fly, the bird still has vestigial wings.尽管不能飞，但这种鸟仍有已退化的翅膀。
2
formal : remaining as the last small part of something that existed before残留的；残余的
- They uncovered vestigial traces of the home's original wallpaper.他们发现了住所原有壁纸的残迹。
- She has some vestigial doubts about investing in the company.对于是否投资这家公司，她还有些疑虑。
vestigial
adjective
ves·ti·gial ve-ˈsti-jē-əl 
-jəl
1
of a body part or organ : remaining in a form that is small or imperfectly developed and not able to function : being or having the form of a vestige (see vestige sense 2)
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web And Elvis will become a lasting memory, Butler's own vestigial twin. 
Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 22 June 2022 Abelisaurids have stocky hind limbs, and like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, have stubby, vestigial forelimbs. Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022 In his 1924 book Social Psychology, Allport made a sweeping inference from Darwin’s writing to say that expressions begin as vestigial in newborns but quickly assume useful social functions. Lisa Feldman Barrett, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022 Their siren-like cry — a harsh rising note that chills the vestigial part of the mammalian brain that remembers living in burrows — echoed off the stone buildings. Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022 Waymo will begin operating self-driving taxis in San Francisco without a person behind the car’s vestigial wheel. Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2022 These sorts of failures are often vestigial features of actions designed with insufficient foresight and flexibility. Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2022 The United States is once again a fifty-state proposition, and the Free States seems to have left no vestigial traces: New York is beset by AIDS, Harvey Milk has been assassinated, and the gay rights movement has proceeded unaltered. Rebecca Panovka, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022 The vestigial hips on my whale point back to her evolutionary ancestors. Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 25 Feb. 2022 See More
Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 22 June 2022 Abelisaurids have stocky hind limbs, and like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, have stubby, vestigial forelimbs. Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022 In his 1924 book Social Psychology, Allport made a sweeping inference from Darwin’s writing to say that expressions begin as vestigial in newborns but quickly assume useful social functions. Lisa Feldman Barrett, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022 Their siren-like cry — a harsh rising note that chills the vestigial part of the mammalian brain that remembers living in burrows — echoed off the stone buildings. Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022 Waymo will begin operating self-driving taxis in San Francisco without a person behind the car’s vestigial wheel. Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2022 These sorts of failures are often vestigial features of actions designed with insufficient foresight and flexibility. Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2022 The United States is once again a fifty-state proposition, and the Free States seems to have left no vestigial traces: New York is beset by AIDS, Harvey Milk has been assassinated, and the gay rights movement has proceeded unaltered. Rebecca Panovka, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022 The vestigial hips on my whale point back to her evolutionary ancestors. Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 25 Feb. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Latin vestigium + English -al entry 1
First Known Use
1843, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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