vestige
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tɪdʒ noun
1.
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.
2.
a surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc.: These superstitions are vestiges of an ancient religion.
3.
a very slight trace or amount of something: Not a vestige remains of the former elegance of the house.
4.
Biology. 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.
5.
Archaic. a footprint; track.
Origin:
1535–45; < Middle French < Latin vestīgium footprint
1535–45; < Middle French < Latin vestīgium footprint
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| —n | |
| 1. | a small trace, mark, or amount; hint: a vestige of truth; no vestige of the meal |
| 2. | biology an organ or part of an organism that is a small nonfunctioning remnant of a functional organ in an ancestor |
| [C17: via French from Latin vestīgium track] | |
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Word Origin & History
vestige
c.1600, from Fr. vestige "a mark, trace, sign," from L. vestigium "footprint, trace," of unknown origin.
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Medical Dictionary
vestige ves·tige (věs'tĭj)
n.
A rudimentary or degenerate, usually nonfunctioning, structure that is the remnant of an organ or a part that was fully developed or functioning in a preceding generation or an earlier stage of development.
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Example sentences
One vestige of human uniqueness still often cited by anthropologists is culture.
It has tiny rounded ears and the mere vestige of a tail.
She had been pretty once and still retained more than a vestige of those looks at fifty-one.
The only remaining vestige is a large granite bullfrog, which has no particular symbolism in itself.
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