Meanings of rudimentary organs in English

The sensory apparatus presents a series of most remarkable rudimentary organs.

The many rudimentary organs in the urinary and sexual apparatus are particularly interesting.

On my view of descent with modification, the origin of rudimentary organs is simple.

Hence rudimentary organs in the adult are often said to have retained their embryonic condition.

Hence use for same purpose of rudimentary organs, etc.

There is no other way of explaining rudimentary organs.

There are similar rudimentary organs in all parts of our body, and in all the higher animals.

Who could reflect upon rudimentary organs, and grant Paley the kind of design that alone would content him?

Such are called rudimentary organs.

The main features, indeed, can still be traced, but they have become as transformed and lifeless as rudimentary organs.

With plants I do not know whether the redevelopment of rudimentary organs occurs more frequently under culture than under nature.

Moreover, the four gill-clefts of the human embryo are only interesting as rudimentary organs, and they soon close up and disappear.

To the right and left of it in the adult male are a couple of other rudimentary organs, the lateral vesico-umbilical ligaments.

These very ancient and strictly hereditary structures, which have no physiological significance to-day, deserve (as " rudimentary organs") our closest attention.

The importance of embryological characters and of rudimentary organs in classification is intelligible, on the view that a natural arrangement must be genealogical.

Only one of them is retained in each sex; the other either disappears altogether, or only leaves relics in the shape of rudimentary organs.