ALL meanings of vestige
ves·tige
V v - noun vestige a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence: A few columns were the last vestiges of a Greek temple. 1
- noun vestige a surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc.: These superstitions are vestiges of an ancient religion. 1
- noun vestige a very slight trace or amount of something: Not a vestige remains of the former elegance of the house. 1
- noun vestige Biology. a degenerate or imperfectly developed organ or structure that has little or no utility, but that in an earlier stage of the individual or in preceding evolutionary forms of the organism performed a useful function. 1
- noun vestige Archaic. a footprint; track. 1
- noun vestige trace 1
- countable noun vestige A vestige of something is a very small part that still remains of something that was once much larger or more important. 0
- noun vestige a small trace, mark, or amount; hint 0
- noun vestige an organ or part of an organism that is a small nonfunctioning remnant of a functional organ in an ancestor 0
- noun vestige a trace, mark, or sign of something that once existed but has passed away or disappeared 0
- noun vestige a trace; bit 0
- noun vestige a degenerate, atrophied, or rudimentary organ or part, more fully developed or functional in an earlier stage of development of the individual or species 0
- noun vestige The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign. 0
- noun vestige A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains. 0
- noun vestige (biology) A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor. 0