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Rudiment

noun

The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural). Synonyms: ABC, ABC's, ABCs, alphabet, first principle, first rudiment.

The remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life.

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... still further untenable if we are justified in believing that the ancestors of men possessed projecting epithelial appendages attached to the penis, and if we accept the discovery by Friedenthal of the rudiment of these appendages on the penis of the human fetus at an early stage (Friedenthal, "Sonderformen der menschlichen Leibesbildung," Sexual-Probleme, Feb., 1912, p. 129). In this case human ingenuity would merely be seeking to supply an organ which nature has ceased to ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... having a rudimentary pistil{491} with another species having this organ perfect, that in the hybrid offspring the rudimentary part is more developed, though still remaining abortive; now this shows how intimately related in nature the mere rudiment and the ...

— The Foundations of the Origin of Species - Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 • Charles Darwin

... see there, peeping round the shoulder of Giant's Cairn; a comfortable little rudiment of a mountain, just enough for a primer-lesson in climbing. Don't you see how the crest drops over on one side, and that scrap of pine—which is really a huge gaunt thing a hundred years old—slants ...

— A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... a new Genus of Crustacea, of the Family Pinnotheridae; in which the fifth pair of legs are reduced to an almost imperceptible rudiment 27 ...

— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various

Words linked to "Rudiment" : ABC, plural form, fundamental principle, alphabet, body part, fundamentals, plural, basic principle, bedrock, first rudiment, basics