leftovers

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Things remaining
(and) all the restidiom
balance
bastion
be leftphrase
cremains
cutpiece
deposit
ground
redoubt
relic
remainder
remains
residual
residually
rest
time capsule
to the dregs
unallocated
unconsumed
uneaten

remnant | American Dictionary

remnant
noun[ C ]
us/ˈrem·nənt/
a small piece or amount of something that is left from a larger, original piece or amount:
a carpet remnant

Examples of remnant

remnant
When a remnant of the interventricular membranous septum is also present, the so-called membranous flap, it lies immediately on top of the atrioventricular bundle.
We have identified one pathway which unquestionably arose from such a remnant of ring tissue.
Right ventricular infundibular muscle bundles were resected and the dysplastic and rudimentary remnants of the pulmonary valve were excised.
They probably represent remnants of microbial mats that developed on the seafloor during the quiescence periods of submarine hydrothermal activity.
This mechanism for particle acceleration could account for the injection population of cosmic ray particles in super nova remnants.
Some peeled off the wall in shreds, like remnants of old wheat-pasted posters from some long-past, lost political campaign.
We tested the hypothesis that genetic diversity in forest remnants was related to population size, forest remnant size and degree of isolation.
The coexistence of new industrial town and remnant agrarian hamlet was thus increasingly untenable.
They are not pristine remnants of a prehistoric era but are artifacts of centuries of forest exploitation by humans.
There was thus a total of 48 quadrats, 24 beneath and 24 away from the crowns of previously remnant trees.
Trees accounted for larger proportions of species and stems beneath remnant trees.
These metaphysical remnants, however, neither express nor pretend to offer any metaphysical claims apart from the normative context.
Any approach which standardly characterizes the possible surface remnants in ellipsis phenomena, however it does so, will serve for present purposes.
Although larger forest patches may provide core habitats and metapopulation sources for bats, small fragments support the same species assemblage found in the largest remnants.
It should be recognized that any remnant insects might well exist in groups in areas where the control method did not operate properly.
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Collocations withremnant

remnant

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only remnant
What they think, feel and say is that they are the onlyremnant left, and they are like the lost tribe.
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