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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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... belongs, in all essential points of structure, to the same family (Cebidae) as the rest of the large- sized American species; but it differs from all its relatives in having only the rudiment of a tail, a member which reaches in some allied kinds the highest grade of development known in the order. It was so unusual to see a nearly tailless monkey from America, that naturalists thought, when the first specimens arrived in Europe, that the member had been shortened ...

— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates

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