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Primitive :: Primitive (n.) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative.

Monoplastic :: Monoplastic (a.) That has one form, or retains its primary form, as, a monoplastic element..

Apastron :: Apastron (n.) That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.

Hue :: Hue (n.) A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others.

Originary :: Originary (a.) Primitive; primary; original.

Archical :: Archical (pref.) Chief; primary; primordial.

Secondary :: Secondary (a.) Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary..

Tricrotism :: Tricrotism (n.) That condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.

Intuition :: Intuition (n.) Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth..

Primitive :: Primitive (a.) Original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive verb in grammar..

Literally :: Literally (adv.) According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh..

Complication :: Complication (n.) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it..

Sublapsarian :: Subkingdom (n.) One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoology, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, Coelentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and the Cryptogamia..

Primary :: Primary (a.) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement..

Axis :: Axis (n.) The primary or secondary central line of any design.

Allegory :: Allegory (n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject..

Somatocyst :: Somatocyst (n.) A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.

Primary :: Primary (a.) First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools..

Secondhand :: Secondhand (a.) Not original or primary; received from another.

Achromatic :: Achromatic (a.) Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.

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