reliquiae

American  

[ri-lik-wee-ee] / rɪˈlɪk wiˌi /

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. remains, as those of fossil organisms.

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reliquiae British  

/ rɪˈlɪkwɪˌiː /

plural noun

1. archaic fossil remains of animals or plants

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Etymology

Origin of reliquiae

From Latin, dating back to 1825–35; relic

Example Sentences

Steep shelving walls strewed with shells and the reliquiae of hippopotami, environed this singular basin, which appeared to be fathomless, and to measure a mile and a half in circumference.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis

Unfortunately Leland’s words S. Wilfridi reliquiae sub arcu prope magnum altare sepultae are too vague to decide its exact position.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric by Hallett, Cecil Walter Charles

"Dein semiruto vallo, humili fossa, accisae jam reliquiae consedisse intelligebantur: medio campi albentia ossa, ut fugerant, ut restiterant, disjecta vel aggerata; adjacebant fragmina telorum, equorumque artus, simul truncis arborum antefixa ora."

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by Prescott, William Hickling

Quorum enim hi reliquiae sunt Æneadae in ferrum pro libertate ruebant. 

From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evans, Evan

In 1785, J. A. Mingarelli published two fasciculi of an account of the Egyptian MSS. in the Nanian Library under the title “Aegyptiorum codicum reliquiae Venetiis in Bibliotheca Naniana asservatae, Bononiae.”

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose