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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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"Rudiment" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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 out from ...

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

... that very nearly all of the eminent men of New England were sons of ministers, or of an ancestry where ministers' names are seen at frequent intervals. As an intellectual and moral force, the minister has now but a rudiment of the power he once exercised. The tendency to specialize all art and all knowledge has to a degree shorn him of his strength. And to such an extent is this true, that within forty years it has passed into a common proverb that the sons of clergymen ...

— Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

... Anthers longer than corolla. Pistil longer than stamens. Style bifid. Pistillate flowers, 15 or more, forming the rays. Corolla monopetalous, 3-toothed. Style and stigma as in hermaphrodite flowers. Seeds of hermaphrodite flowers quadrangular, crowned by one long awn, and the rudiment of another. Seeds of ray flowers small and sometimes flattened, 2 awns, of which one alone lengthens and becomes conspicuous. Receptacle covered ...

— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera

... to feel isolated. Can anybody with any rudiment of intellect feel otherwise in the social environment you and I inhabit—where distinction and inherited position count for absolutely nothing unless propped up by wealth—where any ass is tolerated whose fortune and lineage ...

— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers

Words linked to "Rudiment" : ABC's, body part, basics, fundamentals, bedrock, fundamental principle, basic principle, plural form, plural