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Vestigial

/vɛˈstɪdʒiəl/adjective
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Vestigial refers to a structure or feature that has lost most or all of its original function through the course of evolution, often lingering as a faint echo of an organism's ancestral past. In everyday language, it's metaphorically applied to anything outdated or superfluous, like unused app features in software that developers eventually phase out for better efficiency.

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