rudiment
Noun
- the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life; “Meckel’s diverticulum is the rudiment of the embryonic yolk sac”
- Less specific
- Related
- vestigial
- rudimentary
- rudimentary
first principals of
noun
- the rudiments of the first principles of (a subject)
she taught the girls the rudiments of reading and writing
an elementary or primitive form of (something)
the rudiments of a hot-water system
- Biology an undeveloped or immature part or organ, especially a structure in an embryo or larva which will develop into an organ, limb, etc.
the fetal lung rudiment
- Popular music a basic pattern used by drummers, such as the roll, the flam, and the paradiddle
Origin
mid 16th century : from French , or from Latin rudimentum , from rudis unwrought , on the pattern of elementum element
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