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Rudiment :: Rudiment (n.) That which is unformed or undeveloped; the principle which lies at the bottom of any development; an unfinished beginning.

Institutional :: Institutional (a.) Elementary; rudimental.

Ophiomorpha :: Ophiomorpha (n. pl.) An order of tailless amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the caecilians. Called also Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia..

Elemental :: Elemental (a.) Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.

Lyencephala :: Lyencephala (n. pl.) A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; -- so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary..

Chalcidian :: Chalcidian (n.) One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidae), having four small or rudimentary legs..

Accidence :: Accidence (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar..

Atrophied :: Atrophied (p. a.) Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary..

Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct.

Alphabet :: Alphabet (n.) The simplest rudiments; elements.

Ratitae :: Ratitae (n. pl.) An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples..

Rudiment :: Rudiment (n.) Hence, an element or first principle of any art or science; a beginning of any knowledge; a first step..

Ambiparous :: Ambiparous (a.) Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud.

Novitiate :: Novitiate (n.) The state of being a novice; time of initiation or instruction in rudiments.

Halteres :: Halteres (n. pl.) Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.

Novice :: Novice (n.) One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro..

Pinfeather :: Pinfeather (n.) A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin..

Bud :: Bud (n.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower..

Ovule :: Ovule (n.) The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen..

Cryptobranchiate :: Cryptobranchiate (a.) Having concealed or rudimentary gills.

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