English Dictionary

vestige

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈvɛs.tɪd͡ʒ/

名詞

広義

A mark left on the earth by a foot. / (by extension) A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present.

日本語の意味

残された痕跡、名残、またはかすかに存在する何らかの印や跡

At dawn, the scientist photographed a single faint vestige in the mud that clearly matched the shape of a human foot.

夜明けに、科学者は泥の中にあるかすかな足跡を一つ写真に撮り、それが人の足の形と明らかに一致しているのを確認した。

意味（1）

A mark left on the earth by a foot.

意味（2）

(by extension) A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present.

the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra

意味（3）

(biology) A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.

Any person seeing such a condition could not help being frightened at the conditions found, and it seems to me that that fact should lead us to think that the appendix is a vestige or becoming so.

vestiges （ plural ）