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
The other rib and limb bones eventually hardened from their vestigial origins in the cartilage of fishes.
This means that the essentially linguistic nature of these pursuits is adulterated; they are vestigial modes of the old ‘logic.’
Males produce only staminate flowers with stamens and no vestigial pistils.
Subsequent microscopic study of the outer layer shows that, in a few specimens, patches of the microcrystalline material grade laterally into vestigial spicular fabric.
The human appendix is a vestigial remnant of the caecum. Common Descent & Common Design – An Unexpected Outcome
This is a good thing for me, since my particular configuration of openness, cleverness and vestigial youth tends to make even my most loved ones a little wary of what I'm going to ask of them next.
In other words, ‘vestigial organs’, like the non-functional eyes of cave-dwelling fish, are claimed as evidence for evolution having occurred.
The enteric nerve cells migrate following two pathways, one from each extremity of the neural crest, to implant along the whole of the vestigial gut.
In short, I tend to think the modern empire is fueled by greed and power and fear and other vestigial ape-politics, rather than some dark forces of ritualistic evil.
Like our five fingers, our ear-bones, our rudimentary caudal appendage, or our other 'vestigial' peculiarities, they may remain as indelible tokens of events in our race-history. Pragmatism
I have a hard time imagining that this character in the novels is quite the shaggy surfer dude with a vestigial southern accent and laid back roguish charms that he is in the film.
Descriptions of the skull and non-vestigial dentition of a Miocene platypus (Obdurodon dicksoni n. sp.) from Riversleigh, Australia, and the problem of monotreme origins. Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia
Plans for rebuilding a wrecked country are vestigial.
They lived in the walls, and had been conditioned away from any but the most vestigial fear of humans. ON CATS
There are vestigial remains of a Roman harbour on the western part of the island, and a number of wrecks of Roman vessels have been located in the waters nearby.
Changes in mating behavior produced by selection for ethological isolation between ebony and vestigial mutants of Drosophilia melanogaster. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Nipples in men are similarly vestigial, Dr. Lloyd pointed out.
Awareness of these vestigial epithelial remnants is important in recognizing their associated pathologic conditions and in preventing misdiagnoses.
For Darwin, the economy of nature had a ready explanation in natural selection, and the non-economical aspects of nature, such as vestigial organs, took on great significance. Ernst Mach
However, the legalization of drugs, and a foreign policy of non-intervention, would make the CIA a dissoluble, vestigial organ of government, no longer a threat to peaceful progressive change. Libertarian Legacy? Ron Paul's Campaign Manager, 49, Dies Uninsured, Of Pneumonia, Leaving family $400,000 Debt
With the first new post-war cars, the 1947 Studebaker shows trends that would shape the era: the "pontoon" all-enveloping body restrained by functionally unnecessary vestigial rear "fenders" and a bright accent line where the running board used to be. The Truth About Cars
The canines are absent or vestigial, and a substantial diastema separates incisors and cheek teeth.
Two recurring examples are: a) it might lead us to think that junk DNA has some important function after all and b) it might similarly lead us to look for the function of so called vestigial organs.15 Still awaiting the evidence - The Panda's Thumb
What is totally lacking is any vestigial sense of wishing to appease the people responsible for these outrages.
These rudimentary legs and pelvises are called vestigial structures; they are relics of the whales' common ancestry with their legged cousins. Little bones, big inference
One question is whether this developmental narrative of emotions will continue; whether new emotions will arise, adaptively, in our environment specifically urban emotions, for instance; let's say 'spart', 'monahay' and 'fribbishness'; or whether our earlier emotions will become increasingly vestigial ... so that future humans know anxiety and angst, but never the heart-galloping terror that a predator is about to leap upon them. Emotions
Even monarchy, which was replaced by two consuls jointly holding the imperium of the royal office, retained a vestigial presence in the form of a religious official called the rex sacrorum.
It used to be maintained that there were almost 200 vestigial organs in the human body.
The sacrum itself represents 5 fused bones, and the coccyx another vestigial 2-3 or more - the remains of the ancestral tail.
The belief that wisdom teeth are vestigial organs that lack a function in the body (as was previously believed for the appendix), is less common today but still evident.
The show is about an evil man with some vestigial traces of a conscience making his way in a world that has decided that feeling warm and fuzzy about yourself is more important than being a decent person.
Swinging us out of the gate, I asked Elaine to issue an order to the vestigial remnants of the clan. THE TARTAN RINGERS
This kind of argument, although true, overlooks the underlying cause of this kind of behavior - the primitive, vestigial, human survival instinct for tribalism.
They might have been external gills, some kind of vestigial ornamentation, or a sex attractant. The Dig
The thumb is small and has a vestigial claw, similar to the New World furipterids.
The point is not that vestigial organs have no function whatsoever.
Although there's not a trace left on the outside, boas, pythons, and blind snakes all have completely useless vestigial hipbones buried in their bodies.
No less than Charles Darwin first suggested that the appendix was a vestigial organ from an ancestor that ate leaves, theorizing that it was the evolutionary remains of a larger structure, called a cecum, which once was used by now-extinct predecessors for digesting food. Lead Stories from AOL
The past history, through the ages, of this land was of obvious importance to the geological story of the earth, whilst the survey of land formations and ice action in the Antarctic was more useful perhaps to the physiographer than that of any other country in the world, seeing that he found here in daily and even hourly operation the conditions which he knew had existed in the ice ages of the past over the whole world, but which he could only infer from vestigial remains. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
Boas and pythons still possess vestigial remnants of hind limbs, called "anal claws," which indicate that they are basal members of the ophidian clade.
As for random variations, he knew that vestigial structures, which exhibit relaxed selection, were of high classificatory value. A New Book
In another variation, a vein runs from the left brachiocephalic or from the left superior intercostal vein through the ‘vestigial fold’ (of Marshall) of the pericardium to the vein of Marshall to the coronary sinus.
This vestigial remnant of Christianity turns protesters into propagandist missionaries.
English-speakers then absorbed the French word for the game, employing English variations of the French plural eschecs, including chesses and chestes and chesse, before settling on chess, which carries the vestigial -s ending inherited from the French. The English Is Coming!
Dugongids lack the vestigial nails on their flippers that are possessed by manatees.
Nevertheless, studying the extreme case of vestigial teeth clearly confirms that natural selection affects patterns of variability.
Also, at best, vestigial organs could only prove devolution (loss of information), not evolution.
Males produce only staminate flowers with stamens and no vestigial pistils.
A vestigial structure is any organ, bone, etcetera, that is shown to have no function whatsoever, is not necessary for the creature's survival, or is useless to serve the purpose that a homologous structure in another creature would serve. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
Masts and yards continued to be installed for decades, becoming increasingly vestigial, but the die was cast.
These are vestigial toenails, signs that rattlers are related to lizards and shed their feet somewhere along the evolutionary ladder.
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.
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
In abnormal male flowers, stamens develop as carpelloid structures, whilst in abnormal female flowers, the staminodes (vestigial stamens) develop as pseudocarpel structures.
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
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
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.
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
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
This year he was crushed, frankly, by Patrick Campion, who is not only much larger, but is entirely unencumbered by any vestigial table manners.
He knew that these devices were already vestigial.
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.
All stories enwrapped in this literature have this attempt to find consolation in inevitability: the certainty of living with vestigial belief systems and adherences.
Is it vestigial imperialism on the part of sports journalists?
The scandals and crimes form a tsunami of noise, inrushing upon a benumbed ear, until all that can be perceived is a background static of wrongness, like the vestigial radiation of the Big Bang that permeates the universe. Chip Collis: We Want Change... But From What?
It is often possible to see the vestigial remains of rear limbs on some snakes.
So the parasite itself has some vestigial machinery inside of it that suggests that it once photosynthesized. Malaria: The 500,000-Year-Old 'Fever' That Won't Die
“It’s actually called a vestigial caudal appendage,” Helena said, as if that would be helpful. Balancing in High Heels
Proportional representation is also vestigial here.
The legs of snakes are vestigial or absent altogether.
Now whether it's a vestigial remnant of a day past is something that I question very much.
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
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.
Some form of proportional representation was the key to ensuring that Scottish Labour could never rule alone - its vestigial leftist tendencies would always be constrained by the need for coalition partners.
A tail is present and may be long or vestigial, but it is never fully prehensile as in many cebids.
But perhaps the more canny readers can indeed read backwards from these general remarks and dimly perceive the vestigial outline of the example which occasioned them.
The other rib and limb bones eventually hardened from their vestigial origins in the cartilage of fishes.
In most insects the 1st abdominal segment, and more especially its sternum, is reduced or vestigial.
At the time, when something of which you had hope is thus disintegrating, there's not much to do except hang on to your vestigial self and hope not to be made too lastingly cynical by the process.
Further, a vestigial cut off from its source disappears — for example, a reflected light — and in general an emanant loses its quality once it is severed from the original which it reproduces: just so the powers derived from that source must vanish if they do not remain attached to it. The Six Enneads.
Now whether it's a vestigial remnant of a day past is something that I question very much.
It retains a vestigial reputation for a kind of glamour, sophistication and broadness. Happy Days Aren't Here Again

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