Vestigial is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 427 anagrams from letters in vestigial (aegiilstv).
1880-85; Latin vestīgi(um) vestige + -al1
Thus the view that the behaviour is vestigial is not perhaps unreasonable.
Because a foodie is a mouth with a vestigial person attached, one might think so.
In Cycloturus however the hallux is vestigial and it is absent in Glyptodonts.
Ensembles are of vestigial interest in this new pop culture.
Or, on the other hand, may not such faculty be regarded not as vestigial, but as rudimentary?
So buttons, ruffles, and the vermiform appendix of which we hear so much all fall in the category of vestigial structures.
The first digit is vestigial and the second, third, and fourth are clawed.
Such myths, Manchester argues, may be vestigial in the modern era, but they remain vital to the cohesion of a culture.
There are indications of a vestigial second pair of incisors.
Nevertheless, these are but vestigial traces which the ceaseless European inflow will ultimately eradicate.
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