Sentence examples for A relict from inspiring English sources

"A relict, though some of us have had success reviving its use in certain enlightened communities.

A relict element of the flora, Daphnogene (Lauraceae) has the last occurrence documented from Hungary.

A relict of the margin is preserved at Mesa de Roldán and exhibits steep clinoforms dipping towards the NW (N300°E) and W (N250°E).

A relict species nearly exterminated by the last ice age, box huckleberry is self-sterile, and is found in isolated colonies which reproduce clonally by extending roots.

A relict Moorean population of Samoana attenuata has been monitored since 1996 by C. Hickman, and this species also persists on Tahiti [ 14, 29] and on Raiatea [ 30].

Relict species: a relict concept?

By World War II, they existed only as a relict population north and west of Loch Ness.

At one time it was plentiful in Europe and the Near East, but now it is a relict crop".

Whether Ar. ramidus was the direct ancestor of Australopithecus or a relict of an earlier Ardipithecus species that evolved into Australopithecus cannot be determined at present.

Astronomers have a good idea of what the universe was like at an age of 400,000 years from studying a relict haze of microwaves left over from the Big Bang, and they know what it is like today.

Similarly, a river such as the Mississippi that is reworking a relict alluvial deposit in a valley may be seen to be depositing gravel on point bars on the insides of bends.