vestigial

How To Use vestigial In A Sentence

• His eyes and forehead were enlarged; the bearded chin, and his mouth, which she'd thought so fine, almost vestigial. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
• If ID is so down with genetic decay, they wouldn’t resist the idea of vestigial organs. Genomics and the vacuity of Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb
• But atavistic, or vestigial, geotropism in Genesistrine -- or a million larvae start crawling, and a million little frogs start hopping -- knowing no more what it's all about than we do when we crawl to work in the morning and hop away at night. The Book of the Damned
• His vision of modernity has been to preside over the House in a vestigial remnant of the Speaker's traditional costume, so that he resembles a schoolmaster summoned abruptly from the lunch table.
• The largest was Basilosaurus isis, which was up to 21 m long, with well developed five-fingered flippers on the forelimbs and the quite unexpected presence of hind legs, feet, and toes, not known previously in any archaeocete; a vestigial use may have been as claspers during aquatic mating. Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt
• While ostensibly the pie plate would serve to prevent the derailleur from inadvertently and tragically wandering into the spokes like a Nü-Fred jumping into the Gimbels Ride, in the absence of any sort of rear mech "rear mech" is Yiddish for derailleur--the "ch" is guttural I can only assume the pie plate is vestigial. New Customs: Changing Language, Changing Bikes
• In abnormal male flowers, stamens develop as carpelloid structures, whilst in abnormal female flowers, the staminodes (vestigial stamens) develop as pseudocarpel structures.
• If we only knew enough, we would, no doubt, discover a beneficial use for all the so-called vestigial organs. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
• I think that Bob Carr is using you to score political points and any vestigial respect I felt for him has vanished in a puff of political posturing.
• These are vestigial toenails, signs that rattlers are related to lizards and shed their feet somewhere along the evolutionary ladder.