vestigial / vɛˈstɪdʒ i əl, -ˈstɪdʒ əl /

⚽高中词汇遗留的遗留残缺的遗迹

vestigial 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. of, relating to, or of the nature of a vestige: a vestigial tail.

vestigial 近义词

vestigial

等同于 latent

vestigial

等同于 primitive

vestigial

等同于 rudimentary

vestigial

等同于 remaining

vestigial

等同于 surviving

更多vestigial例句

  1. Displeasing will probably always stir up some vestigial guilt.
  2. It’s always been the evening’s unofficial highest honor, but only in a vestigial sense since the dawn of the iPod — and that’s if you ever considered it an honor in the first place.
  3. Old people and their obsession with secrecy, vestigial limb of a world where secrets still existed.
  4. There will be vestigial tailbones and dangling dewclaws for some time to come, but the point is to set our sights for our best selves and not our worst.
  5. Ensembles are of vestigial interest in this new pop culture.
  6. Such myths, Manchester argues, may be vestigial in the modern era, but they remain vital to the cohesion of a culture.
  7. The scandals now reverberating through Washington reduce to zero any last vestigial possibility of further action on jobs.
  8. Because a foodie is a mouth with a vestigial person attached, one might think so.
  9. It is safe to suppose that our needs are like those of the race and that in us nothing is vestigial that is active in others.
  10. Or, on the other hand, may not such faculty be regarded not as vestigial, but as rudimentary?
  11. Whatever lightness or joy survived was the meaningless vestigial twitching of an obsolete organ.
  12. We now call these toes "vestigial," and know the pig's ancestors used them, walking on four toes and not on two, as at present.
  13. Similar vestigial teeth, 5-40 in number, sometimes occur in goosebeaked whales (p. 70).