Usually means: Relating to reduced, nonfunctional remnants.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word vestigially:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. vestigially: Merriam-Webster
  2. vestigially: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vestigially: Collins English Dictionary
  4. vestigially: Vocabulary.com
  5. vestigially: Wordnik
  6. vestigially: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. vestigially: Wiktionary
  8. vestigially: Dictionary.com
  9. vestigially: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vestigially: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vestigially: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. vestigially: Medical dictionary

(Note: See vestige as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (vestigially)

▸ adverb:  In a vestigial manner.

Similar:
atavistically, extinctively, relicly, rudimentarily, fragmentarily, vestally, reminiscentially, unreconstructedly, archaeologically, antiquatedly, more...

Opposite:
fully, completely, developed, functional

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Similar:
atavistically, extinctively, relicly, rudimentarily, fragmentarily, vestally, reminiscentially, unreconstructedly, archaeologically, antiquatedly, more...

Opposite:
fully, completely, developed, functional



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