rudiment

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Figure 1.177: Rudiment of flying membrane, membranous fold between fore and hind leg. n umbilical vessel, o ear-opening, f flying membrane.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Rudiment -any: the beginning of any structure or part before it has developed.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

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 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 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