Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Relict

rel·ict (rlkt, r-lkt)
n.
1. Ecology An organism or species of an earlier time surviving in an environment that has undergone considerable change.
2. Something that has survived; a remnant.
3. A widow.
adj. Geology
Of or relating to something that has survived, as structures or minerals after destructive processes.

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