relicts in English

noun
1
a thing that has survived from an earlier period or in a primitive form.
‘The Chinese Government has never relaxed in its efforts to retrieve the lost cultural relicts from overseas, but for various reasons, the work has met with lots of difficulties,’ Wang said.
2
a widow.
The knowledge that a provision of this kind is in being can be a consolation to those aware of diminishing powers; and its activation could tangibly benefit their relicts .

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1. Humber Zone mélanges are spatially associated with Taconian nappes and believed to be of tectonic origin. Dunnage Zone mélanges are interpreted as relicts of an Ordovician accretionary prism.

2. Numerous written relicts, Belletristic works (poems of Martial, Juvenal, Ovid etc.) indicate that oral hygiene and its tools (toothbrush, toothpick, use of tooth pastes and tooth-powder) were used long before our times

3. ‘The female common birdwing lays single eggs, which she attaches to the surface of the Indian Birthwort leaves.’ ‘Many of the plant relicts are members of old families: heathers, orchids, honeysuckles, Birthworts, and lillies.’

4. The main characteristics for the sialic origin of the Aeolean magmas are: excess of Als2O3; the presence of minerals of evidently not magmatic origin (cordierite, garnet, andalusite and sillimanite); inclusions of relicts of metamorphic schists besides granites and granodiorites; the fact, that some of these magmas are characterized by superheating (e. g. the obsidians of Lipari-island).