Meaning & use
Vestiges
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Small remaining traces or amounts of something that once existed or was more widespread.
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A few stone walls are the only vestiges of the village that once stood here.
Doctors found vestiges of the old injury in the scans, though it had mostly healed.
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"Vestiges" comes from the Latin "vestigium," meaning footprint, and is often used in biology to describe organs, like the human appendix, that are evolutionary remnants of features once useful to ancestral species.
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