relict

We have to do away with relicts such as the agricultural policy, for example.

First relicts of human settlers are from the last ice age.

As a result the area is home to many primitive relict species.

He also believed the fly to be a relict from the ice age.

But that relict of his consciousness was beyond her grasp.

By this token he knew that humanity on Earth had become a relict.

Many if not all current populations are relicts, and of restricted distribution.

These are most likely the relict fragments of a historically continuous population.

About 40 percent of them are relict or endemic.

A relict is a surviving remnant of a natural phenomenon.

The cave fauna thus represent, at least in part, relicts.

A man professing to be his relict can walk abroad without danger.

Other parts of the hill also have relict heathland vegetation.

All the artillery had been recovered by a relict of a Danish ship.

His eyes were wide and staring; but she could see no relict of awareness or sanity in them.

These primary heirs consist of the spouse relict, both parents, the son and the daughter.

This population is probably also a relict from the Pleistocene epoch.

In 1891 ice age relicts were found near here in a quarry.

During excavation work for these new outbuildings prehistoric relicts were found.

However, a relict need not be currently living.

The plant, as a relict, may be naturally rare.

This plant is likely a relict of times when conditions were colder and wetter.

These bogs are relicts that have survived since the last glacial period.

The fact that the machine-stored moved so much faster brought about some emotional problems for their meat relicts, too.

That left the third relict, and the strongest.