vestigial organ
An organ that was once useful in an animal’s evolutionary past, but now has no apparent nor predictable function [based on the behavior of the species (or sex) in which they are found, or the anatomy of the particular feature]: e.g., male mammae, rudiments of pelvis and hind limbs in snakes, wings on many flightless birds.Also known as: rudimentary organ
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