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Meanings of vestigial in английском

Not fully developed in mature animals.

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Usage of vestigial in английском
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Even the vestigial organs of animals have their counterparts in the machines.
The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope
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True, I did bring the tail-butit's only vestigial, I assure you.
Cauldron of Ghosts
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The usual process is a gradual recession to a merely vestigial state.
The Task of Social Hygiene
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They respire, merely as a vestigial reflex, but they don't oxygenate anymore.
The strain
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Out the window go any vestigial thoughts about smart little late-1990s-style dinners.
The Irish Times
6
I am pretty sure one of the girls had a vestigial tail.
Assholes finish first
7
The thought of a naked Mary offended even my vestigial religious sense.
Demon: a memoir
8
Jude listened, hoping to find some vestigial sense there, but there was none.
Imajica: Complete Edition
9
The vestigial antennae in its ocular sockets waved uneasily from side to side.
Perdido Street Station
10
Some vestigial teenage memory ran up and down my gut, making me cramp.
Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel
11
The red stuff beneath my fingernails is, I suspect, vestigial Play-Doh.
Medium raw: a bloody valentine to the world of food and the peop...
12
And then one last door, this vestigial door, up in the master bedroom.
Sympathy for the devil
13
The Calley case represents a momentary, vestigial reminder of the old law of responsibility.
The new yorker
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This is really a vestigial method left over from before iTunes did Wi-Fi sync.
Wired
15
Suddenly all the horns and wattles and vestigial wings in my garden made sense.
Seraphina
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A use for the vestigial watch pocket on Levi's jeans.
Wired
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