🔤 Vestigially

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URDU

باقیہ کی صورت میں، نامکمل طور پر، پرانی نشانی کے طور پر، کم شدہ حیثیت میں، غیر مؤثر باقیے کی طرح، ارتقائی نشان کے طور پر
🅰️ Roman Urdu:
baqaya ki soorat mein, na mukammal taur par, purani nishani ke tor par, kam shuda haisiyat mein, bekaar baqaye ki tarah
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ENGLISH

📚adverb
vestigially
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PRONUNCIATION

Standard: /vɛˈstɪdʒiəli/
Phonetic: /veh stij ee uh lee/
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DEFINITION

in a vestigial manner, as a remnant, imperfectly developed, with reduced function, as an evolutionary leftover
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

The organ functions vestigially because evolution reduced its original biological importance. The animal retains vestigially developed limbs beneath its otherwise streamlined body. Some ancestral behaviors survive vestigially despite having little practical value today. The structure remains vestigially present but no longer performs its former function. Scientists described the feature as vestigially inherited from an earlier evolutionary stage.
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SYNONYMS

imperfectly marginally partially residually rudimentarily

ANTONYMS

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