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relic
1. RC Church Eastern Church part of the body of a saint or something supposedly used by or associated with a saint, venerated as holy
2. Ecology a less common term for relict (sense 1)
relic [′rel·ik]
(geology)
A landform that remains intact after decay or disintegration or that remains after the disappearance of the major portion of its substance.
A vestige of a particle in a sedimentary rock, such as a trace of a fossil fragment.
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