Editing Relict (section)

==Other uses==
* In ecology, an [[ecosystem]] which originally ranged over a large expanse, but is now narrowly confined, may be termed a relict.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Webb, L. J. (Leonard James), 1920-2008 | author-link1=Leonard Webb (academic) | author2=Tracey, J. G. (John Geoffrey), 1920-2004 | author-link2=Geoff Tracey | title=Australian Rainforests: Patterns and Change (Ecological Biogeography of Australia, vol. 1 p. 605-694) | publication-date=1981 | publisher=The Hague: W. Junk | hdl=102.100.100/292256?index=1 | url=http://hdl.handle.net/102.100.100/292256?index=1}}</ref>
* In [[agronomy]], a relict crop is a crop which was previously grown extensively, but is now only used in one limited region, or a small number of isolated regions.
* In [[real estate law]], reliction is the gradual recession of water from its usual high-water mark so that the newly uncovered land becomes the property of the adjoining [[riparian]] property owner.<ref name="Lear1991a">Lear, P.W. 1991, ''Accretion, reliction, erosion, and avulsion: a survey of riparian and littoral title problems.'' Journal of Energy, Natural Resources & Environmental Law. vol. 11, pp. 265-285.</ref>
* "Relict" was an ancient term still used in colonial (British) America, and in England and Ireland of that era, now archaic, for a [[widow]]; it has come to be a generic or collective term for widows and widowers.
* In [[historical linguistics]], a relict is a word that is a survivor of a form or forms that are otherwise archaic.