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relict

adjective

surviving the death of another; esp., widowed

noun

  1. Archaic a widow
    1. Ecol. a plant or animal species living on in isolation in a small local area as a survival from an earlier period or as a remnant of an almost extinct group
    2. Geol. a physical feature, mineral, structure, etc. remaining after other components have wasted away or been altered

See relict in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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