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 privileged position of the analyst, after all, is a vestige of the days when just about all investors had accounts with the major brokerage houses.

  • These days, it is a vestige, whose only real wellspring of importance is a president who elevates it with his blandishments and listens to its advice.

  • 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).

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


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