vestigial structure
anatomic structure retained during the process of evolution that have lost some or all of its ancestral function
Facts
3 properties- Subclass of
- anatomical structure[1]
- Described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10[3][4]
🏷️ Also known as
en vestigial organ
en vestigial structure
ar أثارية
ar التراكيب الأثرية
cs rudiment
da rudimentært organ
de Rudimentäres Organ
de Rudimentär
de Rudimentäre Organe
de Rudimente
de Rudimentation
es organos vestigiales
es órgano rudimentario
es organo rudimentario
es órganos vestigiales
es vestigio evolutivo
es estructura vestigial
es vestigial
es órgano vestigial
es organo vestigial
🔖 Identifiers · 12
- Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
- scot/11501
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- science/vestigial-organ
- Freebase ID
- /m/01sxxq
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- vestigi-0
- KBpedia ID
- VestigialOrgan
- Lex ID
- rudiment
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
- 11855727
- Museum-digital tag ID
- 102231
- Topic's main category
- Category:Vestigial organs
- UBERON ID
- 0005160
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
- 05611777-n
🔗 Connections
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