Synonyms for vestigial
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ve-stij-ee-uh l, -stij-uh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : vɛˈstɪdʒ i əl, -ˈstɪdʒ əl |
Top 10 synonyms for vestigial Other synonyms for the word vestigial
- abecedarian
- abeyant
- animal
- atavistic
- austere
- barbarian
- barbarous
- basal
- beginning
- between the lines
- brutish
- childlike
- concealed
- contained
- covert
- early
- fierce
- idle
- ignorant
- immature
- implied
- in abeyance
- inactive
- inert
- inferential
- inferred
- initial
- inoperative
- intrinsic
- introductory
- invisible
- involved
- larval
- left
- lingering
- natural
- nonliterate
- nuts-and-bolts
- passive
- possible
- potential
- preliterate
- primary
- primitive
- quiescent
- raw
- remaining
- residual
- rough
- rude
- rudimentary
- savage
- secret
- simple
- simplest
- sleeping
- smoldering
- spare
- suppressed
- surviving
- suspended
- tacit
- torpid
- uncivilized
- uncompleted
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- underdeveloped
- underlying
- undeveloped
- undomesticated
- unexposed
- unexpressed
- unlearned
- unrealized
- unrefined
- unripe
- unseen
- unsophisticated
- untamed
- untaught
- untrained
- untutored
- unused
- veiled
- vestigial
- wild
Définition of vestigial
Origin :- 1877, from vestige + -al (1).
- As in latent : adj dormant, hidden
- As in primitive : adj barbaric, crude
- As in rudimentary : adj basic, fundamental
- As in remaining : adj surplus
- As in surviving : adj continuing on
- The first digit is vestigial and the second, third, and fourth are clawed.
- Extract from : « The Vertebrate Skeleton » by Sidney H. Reynolds
- In Cycloturus however the hallux is vestigial and it is absent in Glyptodonts.
- Extract from : « The Vertebrate Skeleton » by Sidney H. Reynolds
- There are indications of a vestigial second pair of incisors.
- Extract from : « The Vertebrate Skeleton » by Sidney H. Reynolds
- Or, on the other hand, may not such faculty be regarded not as vestigial, but as rudimentary?
- Extract from : « Occultism and Common-Sense » by Beckles Willson
- Thus the view that the behaviour is vestigial is not perhaps unreasonable.
- Extract from : « Territory in Bird Life » by H. Eliot Howard
- Nevertheless, these are but vestigial traces which the ceaseless European inflow will ultimately eradicate.
- Extract from : « The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy » by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard
- So buttons, ruffles, and the vermiform appendix of which we hear so much all fall in the category of vestigial structures.
- Extract from : « Animals of the Past » by Frederic A. Lucas
- In various Teleosts the scales are vestigial (eel); in others (as in most electric fishes) they have completely disappeared.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 3 » by Various
- In the Achorutidae the head is forwardly directed, the tergum of the prothorax conspicuous, and the spring small or vestigial.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 » by Various
- A fourth case is shown in the fruit fly, where an ebony fly with long wings is mated to a grey fly with vestigial wings (fig. 24).
- Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan
Antonyms for vestigial
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