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ru·di·men·ta·ry

(ro͞o′də-mĕn′tə-rē, -mĕn′trē)

adj.

1. Of or relating to basic facts or principles; elementary: I have only a rudimentary knowledge of Greek.

2. Being in an early stage of development or having a simple form: traveled upriver in a rudimentary boat.

3. Biology Imperfectly or incompletely developed: a mutant mouse with rudimentary claws.

ru′di·men·tar′i·ly (-târ′ə-lē) adv.

ru′di·men′ta·ri·ness n.

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rudimentary

(ˌruːdɪˈmɛntərɪ) or less commonly

rudimental

adj

1. basic; fundamental; not elaborated or perfected

2. (Biology) incompletely developed; vestigial: rudimentary leaves.

ˌrudiˈmentarily, ˌrudiˈmentally adv

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ru•di•men•ta•ry

(ˌru dəˈmɛn tə ri, -tri)

also ru`di•men′tal,

adj.

1. of or pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary.

2. undeveloped or vestigial.

3. primitive; crude.

[1830–40]

ru`di•men•ta′ri•ly (-mɛnˈtɛər ə li, -ˈmɛn tər-) adv.

ru`di•men′ta•ri•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	rudimentary - being or involving basic facts or principles; "the fundamental laws of the universe"; "a fundamental incomatibility between them"; "these rudimentary truths"; "underlying principles" fundamental, underlying basic - pertaining to or constituting a base or basis; "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"
	2.	rudimentary - being in the earliest stages of development; "rudimentary plans" incomplete, uncomplete - not complete or total; not completed; "an incomplete account of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete military success"; "an incomplete forward pass"
	3.	rudimentary - not fully developed in mature animals; "rudimentary wings" vestigial biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms undeveloped - not developed; "courses in interior design were rare and undeveloped"; "undeveloped social awareness"

rudimentary

adjective

1. primitive, simple, basic, rough, crude, makeshift, undeveloped, unsophisticated, rough and ready It had been extended into a kind of rudimentary kitchen.

2. basic, fundamental, elementary, early, primary, initial, introductory He had only a rudimentary knowledge of French.

3. undeveloped, incomplete, immature, embryonic, vestigial a rudimentary backbone called a notochord
undeveloped advanced, mature, refined, later, higher, developed, complete, sophisticated

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rudimentary

adjective

Of or treating the most basic aspects:

basal, basic, beginning, elementary, rudimental.

Translations

بِدائي، أوَّلي

primitivnízákladní

elementær

frumstæîur, vanòróaîur

elementare rudimentale

rudimentary

[ˌruːdɪˈmentərɪ] ADJ (gen) → rudimentario (Bio) → rudimental
he has rudimentary Latin → tiene las primeras nociones de latín, sabe un poquito de latín

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rudimentary

[ˌruːdɪˈmɛntəri] adj → rudimentaire

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rudimentary

adj (= basic) principles → elementar; equipment → primitiv; language, system → rudimentär; (Biol) → rudimentär; rudimentary knowledge → Grundkenntnisse pl; in a rudimentary way → in einer primitiven Form or Art und Weise

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rudimentary

[ˌruːdɪˈmɛnt/ərɪ] adj → rudimentale

rudiments

(ˈruːdimənts) noun plural

the first simple facts or rules of anything. to learn the rudiments of cookery.

rudiˈmentary (-ˈmen-) adjective

primitive or undeveloped. rudimentary tools.

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Effects of external conditions -- Use and disuse, combined with natural selection; organs of flight and of vision -- Acclimatisation -- Correlation of growth -- Compensation and economy of growth -- False correlations -- Multiple, rudimentary, and lowly organised structures variable -- Parts developed in an unusual manner are highly variable: specific characters more variable than generic: secondary sexual characters variable -- Species of the same genus vary in an analogous manner -- Reversions to long lost characters -- Summary.

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Some lichens lay upon the black rocks; some microscopic plants, rudimentary diatomas, a kind of cells placed between two quartz shells; long purple and scarlet weed, supported on little swimming bladders, which the breaking of the waves brought to the shore.

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In him were traces of the softening civilisation of ages--of some of the higher instincts and education of man, no matter how rudimentary these might be.

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They contend that no food is necessary, nor do they eat; but any one of the most rudimentary intelligence must realize that food is a necessity to creatures having actual existence."

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His skin was fair as a woman's, far more satiny, and no rudimentary hair-growth marred its white lustre.

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When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place.

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When she held her, she sunk her rudimentary nails into the poor girl's flesh, or twisted her arm in a most painful manner.

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That afterglow has long faded away; and the picture we are apt to make of Methodism in our imagination is not an amphitheatre of green hills, or the deep shade of broad-leaved sycamores, where a crowd of rough men and weary-hearted women drank in a faith which was a rudimentary culture, which linked their thoughts with the past, lifted their imagination above the sordid details of their own narrow lives, and suffused their souls with the sense of a pitying, loving, infinite Presence, sweet as summer to the houseless needy.

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Secondly, these missionaries would gradually, and without creating suspicion or exciting alarm, introduce a rudimentary cleanliness among the nobility, and from them it would work down to the people, if the priests could be kept quiet.

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What strange developments of humanity, what wonderful advances upon our rudimentary civilization, I thought, might not appear when I came to look nearly into the dim elusive world that raced and fluctuated before my eyes!

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There are rudimentary bow-windows, cornices, chimneys, demarcations of stories, etc.

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Some private individual -- a Pentagon whose name is variously reported -- having casually discovered the constituents of the simpler colours and a rudimentary method of painting, is said to have begun decorating first his house, then his slaves, then his Father, his Sons, and Grandsons, lastly himself.