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relict

noun as in widow

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Discovering this relict ecosystem highlights the widespread impact past changes in the climate have had on the world’s coastlines, Ezcurra says, and it provides a chance to better understand how future sea level rise may affect these ecosystems.

This supports our hypothesis that the San Pedro River mangroves are a relict from the last interglacial, some 120,000 years ago.

We hope scientists who study other types of organisms will explore this area and look for more relicts.

She was attired in the black calico riding-skirt and sunbonnet 443 which represented the mourning garb of the mountain relict.

We cannot but rejoice that in the present day there exists not the slightest relict of serfdom in any part of the United Kingdom.

To whose memory as an instance of her conjugal affection, Mary, his sorrowful relict, caused this monument to be erected.

He felt that he could not refuse the unexplained opportunity to pay at least his respects to the relict of his idol.

What brought me to consciousness was his fumbling with the buttons at the waist of that blue muslin relict of a sentiment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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