vestigial

How To Use vestigial In A Sentence

• Unlike most other snakes, boa constrictors possess small vestigial hind legs.
• Their forelimbs are modified to form flippers, their hindlimbs are reduced to nothing more than a vestigial pelvis, and their tail is enlarged and flattened horizontally to form a fluke or paddle.
• Despite vestigial temperence tendencies, Camberwell even boasts a pub, the Palace, which used to be a regular meat market on Saturday nights, until a vegan action group forced its closure.
• Perhaps this attitude stemmed from some vestigial Old World notions of hierarchy, division of labor, or even the unseemliness of the music that they produced.
• I was writing unrhymed sonnets - the arbitrariness of the form, however vestigial, as a container.
• Scientists are coming to the realisation that we may all have the capacity for vestigial synaesthesia, even if our sensory pathways have been separated out as normal.
• That is, except for a handful of more primitive serpents such as boas and pythons, whose vestigial femurs protrude from their scaly underbellies like stunted pincers.
• Perhaps this attitude stemmed from some vestigial Old World notions of hierarchy, division of labor, or even the unseemliness of the music that they produced.
• By Monday night, though, in his 48-hour-warning speech, the references to international law and the United Nations had become vestigial.
• The first is an FM demodulation step that recovers a baseband signal with a 3db roll off at 230 Khz. This is a Vestigial Sideband Modulation (VSB) signal that uses single sidband techniques invented by the amateur radio community. Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Update (LOIRP) 20 January 2009 - NASA Watch