How about "artifact?" The word "vestiges" reminds me of body parts that are no longer needed, as in "vestigial tail." The Free dictionary has an interesting definition: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/artifact
Here are the definitions I found for "vestiges" at Dictionary.com. I really like all of them except #4 but a lot of people may think of the body parts meaning. –noun 1. a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence: A few columns were the last vestiges of a Greek temple. 2. a surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc.: These superstitions are vestiges of an ancient religion. 3. a very slight trace or amount of something: Not a vestige remains of the former elegance of the house. 4. Biology . a degenerate or imperfectly developed organ or structure that has little or no utility, but that in an earlier stage of the individual or in preceding evolutionary forms of the organism performed a useful function. 5. Archaic . a footprint; track.
How about "artifact?" The word "vestiges" reminds me of body parts that are no longer needed, as in "vestigial tail." The Free dictionary has an interesting definition: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/artifact
ReplyDeleteHere are the definitions I found for "vestiges" at Dictionary.com. I really like all of them except #4 but a lot of people may think of the body parts meaning.
ReplyDelete–noun
1.
a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence: A few columns were the last vestiges of a Greek temple.
2.
a surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc.: These superstitions are vestiges of an ancient religion.
3.
a very slight trace or amount of something: Not a vestige remains of the former elegance of the house.
4.
Biology . a degenerate or imperfectly developed organ or structure that has little or no utility, but that in an earlier stage of the individual or in preceding evolutionary forms of the organism performed a useful function.
5.
Archaic . a footprint; track.