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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ves•tig•i•al (ve stij′ē əl, -stij′əl),USA pronunciation adj. - Developmental Biologyof, pertaining to, or of the nature of a vestige:a vestigial tail.
- Latin vestīgi(um) vestige + -al1
- 1880–85
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: veˈstigial /vɛˈstɪdʒɪəl/ adj - of, relating to, or being a vestige
- (of certain organs or parts of organisms) having attained a simple structure and reduced size and function during the evolution of the species: the vestigial pelvic girdle of a snake
ves•tige /ˈvɛstɪdʒ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence:the last vestiges of a once great empire.
- a very slight trace or amount of something:the last vestige of hope.
ves•tig•i•al /vɛˈstɪdʒiəl, -ˈstɪdʒəl/USA pronunciation adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ves•tige (ves′tij),USA pronunciation n. - a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence:A few columns were the last vestiges of a Greek temple.
- a surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc.:These superstitions are vestiges of an ancient religion.
- a very slight trace or amount of something:Not a vestige remains of the former elegance of the house.
- Developmental Biology[Biol.]a degenerate or imperfectly developed organ or structure that has little or no utility, but that in an earlier stage of the individual or in preceding evolutionary forms of the organism performed a useful function.
- [Archaic.]a footprint;
track.
- Latin vestīgium footprint
- Middle French
- 1535–45
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged token. See trace.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged hint, suggestion.
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