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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
relict is a noun meaning "an organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated". It carries 2 recorded senses.
an organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated
geological feature that is a remnant of a pre-existing formation after other parts have disappeared
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for relict come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.