Example sentences for: vestige

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  • In Artemisia s.l ., the typical limb of the Anthemideae-type ray florets are reduced to a membranous vestige, giving the impression that the small capitula are composed only of disk florets, referred to as disciform capitula (inflorescence) by Bremer and Humphries [ 2 ] . In other members of the genus, the ray flowers are absent, thus the capitulum is composed only of disk florets, i.e ., discoid.

  • The buzz is fading, and the company's jeans in particular, which a Fortune writer once said "made women look like Parisian hookers," seem like a vestige of a time when we read Less Than Zero and listened to Echo and the Bunnymen (which we may do still, but while wearing khakis).

  • Many genes were modulated similarly in all of the cell lines, suggesting conservation of a specific androgen-responsive program, perhaps a vestige of the prostatic epithelial phenotype, between these cell lines (Figure 3; see also [ 12] and Additional data files).

  • Captain Arthur Knowles and his First Mate Harold Sherman used a neat expression for the sky when a cool northwesterly breeze swept over the bay clearing out every vestige of cloud except those low to the southeast, where the warm water of the Gulf Stream condensed as a ragged range of billowy clouds.

  • Thousands perished and much of China’s cultural heritage was destroyed as a vestige of feudalism.


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