vestigial
Character or morphological feature having attained a simplified structure and reduced size, function and importance during the evolution of a taxon.
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Ichthyological terms, not general ones.
Character or morphological feature having attained a simplified structure and reduced size, function and importance during the evolution of a taxon.
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In biology, incompletely developed; embryonic; vestigial.
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