Usually means: Remnant surviving from an earlier time.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word relict:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. relict: Merriam-Webster
  2. relict: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. relict: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. relict: Collins English Dictionary
  5. relict: Vocabulary.com
  6. Relict, relict: Wordnik
  7. relict: Wiktionary
  8. relict: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. relict: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. relict: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Relict, relict: Dictionary.com
  12. relict: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Relict (biology), Relict (geology), Relict: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Relict: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. relict: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. relict: Rhymezone
  17. Relict: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. relict: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. relict: FreeDictionary.org
  20. relict: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. relict: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. relict: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Relict: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relict: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. relict: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RELICT, RELICT, RELICT: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. relict: Genealogy Glossary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See relicts as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (relict)

noun:  (formal) Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic.
noun:  (archaic) The surviving member of a married couple after one or the other has died; a widow or widower.
noun:  (biology, ecology) A species, organism, or ecosystem that has survived from a previous age: one that was once widespread but is now found only in a few areas.
noun:  (geology) A structure or other feature that has survived from a previous age.
noun:  (linguistics) A survival of an archaic word, language or other form.
adjective:  Surviving, remaining.
adjective:  That is a relict; pertaining to a relict.

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