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vestigial::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rudimentary |
Examples of vestigial
vestigial
David Baker's Inventions from Outer Space should wipe away any vestigial smiles.
From the newscientist.com
Political rhetoric keeps those older ideas alive in vestigial but important ways.
From the dailyherald.com
From goosebumps to wisdom teeth, vestigial organs have long perplexed biologists.
From the newscientist.com
These examples are the panicked flapping of the vestigial wing of privacy fear.
From the techcrunch.com
Whales have a spinal column, a vestigial pelvic bone, and a four-chambered heart.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I could see that it had great value in severing the last vestigial ties to him.
From the blog.beliefnet.com
I recall how tonsils and appendix were vestigial organs left behind by evolution.
From the healthland.time.com
One of the earliest documented examples was that of vestigial wings in Drosophila.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Vestigial legal discrimination against Indigenous voters was removed in the 1960s.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Not fully developed in mature animals; "rudimentary wings"
- Vestigiality describes homologous characters of organisms that have seemingly lost all or most of their original function in a species through evolution. These may take various forms such as anatomical structures, behaviors and biochemical pathways. ...
- Pertaining to an anatomical part that is becoming lost through evolution and has no function. One example is the pelvic bone in whales.
- Describing a characteristic which has receded from a useful structure in an ancestral form, and has little or no current use.
- Organ that is diminished in size and often nonfunctional.
- A rudimentary organ that was more functional at some time in the organism's evolutionary history.
- Degenerate or small. For example, lesser sirens, Siren lacertina, have two front, vestigial limbs.
- A small, functionless structure that was once well-developed in an organism's ancestors but which has been reduced during the course of evolution
- Rudimentary; pertaining to a structure that is undeveloped, poorly developed, or degenerate and therefore non-functional.
