rudiment
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Rudiment, an imperfectly developed and functionally useless organ.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
Rudiment of second flower wanting; glumes and palet rather chartaceous, compressed-keeled; flowering glume 1-nerved, entirely awnless; palet strongly 2-keeled; panicle at length open and loose.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
B. Rudiment further advanced, showing the foundations of the head, tail, and vertebral column.
From Lectures and Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry
Rudiment of the embryon a simple living filament, becomes a living ring, and then a living tube.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Rudiment, used here as a translation for the word anlage, which means the first plotting-out or beginning of a living structure.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar
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