Usually means: Remnants of lost or diminished function.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word vestigial:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. vestigial: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vestigial: Merriam-Webster
  3. vestigial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vestigial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vestigial: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vestigial: Vocabulary.com
  7. Vestigial, vestigial: Wordnik
  8. vestigial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. vestigial: Wiktionary
  10. vestigial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vestigial: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vestigial: Dictionary.com
  13. Vestigial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Vestigial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. vestigial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. vestigial: Rhymezone
  17. Vestigial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. vestigial: FreeDictionary.org
  19. vestigial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. vestigial: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vestigial: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. vestigial: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Vestigial: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. vestigial: Medical dictionary
  5. Vestigial: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  3. vestigial: Evolution Glossary
  4. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vestigial: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See vestige as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a trace from the past.
adjective:  Not fully developed in mature animals.
adjective:  (evolutionary theory) Of a vestigial structure; that has lost all or most of its original function in the course of evolution.
noun:  (evolutionary theory) A small, degenerate, or imperfectly developed part or organ which has been more fully developed in some past generation.

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