vestige
- 1) noun, a small trace, mark, or amount; hint
- 2) noun, biology an organ or part of an organism that is a small nonfunctioning remnant of a functional organ in an ancestor
Etymology
C17: via French from Latin vestīgium track
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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