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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



... with her a bird—or at least birds must have been somewhere in the creature's ancestry, but the present representative of its kind had only vestigial remnants of wings, its trailing feet and legs well developed ...
— The Defiant Agents • Andre Alice Norton
... become bald—perhaps as bald as Thomas Hobbes was—for a vigilant and active soul invariably compels baldness, so close are the relations between the soul and the brain, and so destructive are the growth and operations of the soul to those vestigial features which humanity has inherited from those ...
— The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac • Eugene Field


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


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