relict

UK /ˈɹɛlɪkt/ US /ˈɹɛlɪkt/
noun 4adj 2

Definitions

noun

1

Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic.

Upon which the Chancellor, by way of note said, 'it is suggested, that there is a relict of the deceased, married to another man, who has joined her in a power of attorney to authorize the sale of her interest, […]'

But I am not the penniless nonentity I was when we first met; I can offer an honorable if not a brilliant marriage; and at the very lowest I can provide my wife – my widow, my relict – with a decent competence, an assured future.

2

Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic.

[…] a continental northern Alaskan element, including a series of endemic species and disjuncts that have survived the Pleistocene glaciation in northern Alaska and thus represent relicts of the much warmer Tertiary […]

The species may be a relict of former stages of historical vegetation and landscape development resulting from past climate changes (glacial and post- glacial periods).

3

Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic.

Dark rims around the pillows are caused by glaucophane enrichment, possibly a relict of a primary interaction between basalt and seawater, causing Na- enrichment in the original glass crust of the pillows.

4

Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic.

A small number of linguists believe that Cimbrian is not an Austro-Bavarian dialect but a relict of Lombardic.

adj

1

Surviving, remaining.

2

That is a relict; pertaining to a relict.

In the lakes and in the streams were species of fish not known elsewhere on earth and birds and lizards and other forms of life as well all long relict here for the desert stretched away on every side.

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