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relict - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- vegetation: It is often a relict of former woodland vegetation, surviving woodland clearance despite being a shade lover.
Adjective modifier
- extensive: It is particularly noted for its wealth of extensive relict Roman archeological remains.
- glacial: Pollan is a fish unique in Western Europe being a glacial relict from the last ice age.
Modifies a noun
- specie: This is an uncommon relict species in Armenia ( the only info I have on it at all!
- woodland: They lie within the area of the former Selwood Forest, and their dispersed hamlets and farms are typical of relict woodland.
- population: We are not sure whether there is a relict population there or whether the beetle has spread into the area.
- landscape: Other quarries survive as relict landscapes, tho with little in the way of machinery.
- feature: Loess, the material produced is a relict feature.
- area: These relict areas have either remained ice-free islands ( nunataks ), or were preserved under ice.
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