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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 rel·ict /ˈrɛlɪkt/
 未亡人,寡婦,殘餘物,殘餘

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rel·ict n.  A woman whose husband is dead; a widow.
    Eli dying without issue, Jacob was obliged by law to marry his relict, and so to raise up seed to his brother Eli.   --South.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 relict
      n 1: 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
      2: geological feature that is a remnant of a pre-existing
         formation after other parts have disappeared