- a species or community living in an environment that has changed from that which is typical for it.
- a remnant or survivor.
- a widow.
- ecology
- a group of animals or plants that exists as a remnant of a formerly widely distributed group in an environment different from that in which it originated
- (as modifier)
- geology
- a mountain, lake, glacier, etc, that is a remnant of a pre-existing formation after a destructive process has occurred
- a mineral that remains unaltered after metamorphism of the rock in which it occurs
- an archaic word for widow (def. 1)
- an archaic word for relic (def. 6)
