Antonyms for vestigial

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ve-stij-ee-uh l, -stij-uh l

Phonetic Transcription : vɛˈstɪdʒ i əl, -ˈstɪdʒ əl

Definition of vestigial

Origin : 1877, from vestige + -al (1).

As in latent : adj dormant, hidden
As in primitive : adj barbaric, crude
As in rudimentary : adj basic, fundamental
As in remaining : adj surplus
As in surviving : adj continuing on

Example sentences :

The first digit is vestigial and the second, third, and fourth are clawed.
Extract from : « The Vertebrate Skeleton » by Sidney H. Reynolds

In Cycloturus however the hallux is vestigial and it is absent in Glyptodonts.
Extract from : « The Vertebrate Skeleton » by Sidney H. Reynolds

There are indications of a vestigial second pair of incisors.
Extract from : « The Vertebrate Skeleton » by Sidney H. Reynolds

Or, on the other hand, may not such faculty be regarded not as vestigial, but as rudimentary?
Extract from : « Occultism and Common-Sense » by Beckles Willson

Thus the view that the behaviour is vestigial is not perhaps unreasonable.
Extract from : « Territory in Bird Life » by H. Eliot Howard

Nevertheless, these are but vestigial traces which the ceaseless European inflow will ultimately eradicate.
Extract from : « The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy » by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard

So buttons, ruffles, and the vermiform appendix of which we hear so much all fall in the category of vestigial structures.
Extract from : « Animals of the Past » by Frederic A. Lucas

In various Teleosts the scales are vestigial (eel); in others (as in most electric fishes) they have completely disappeared.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 3 » by Various

In the Achorutidae the head is forwardly directed, the tergum of the prothorax conspicuous, and the spring small or vestigial.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 » by Various

A fourth case is shown in the fruit fly, where an ebony fly with long wings is mated to a grey fly with vestigial wings (fig. 24).
Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan

Synonyms for vestigial

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