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ADVERB
- with reference to the origin or beginning
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in a primitive style or manner
rather primitively operated foundries
How To Use primitively In A Sentence
- Ultimately, it also proves the primitively atavistic nature of human beings: that altruism is an unnatural societal construct and that self-interest is the natural impulse of the human animal. Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Inside Job
- And now he possessed her utterly , primitively - as a hunter does his quarry, a tiger his kill.
- Primitively eusocial wasps of the genus Polistes have played a pivotal role as ‘hypothesis generating model organisms’ in sociobiology and kin selection theories.
- rather primitively operated foundries
- Primitively, the ventral articulation is directly below the dorsal articulation and both are located above the anterior part of the vestibular fontanelle.
- Primitively clumsy and slow, with conical heads and pointed pink noses, sparse gray fur and naked ears, mature opossums reach the size of house cats (about ten pounds).
- There are three lineages of primitively wingless hexapods that lack a dorsal appendage branch, and one, the Archaeognatha, with such a branch.
- The appendages are primitively branched, and although this condition is modified in many species, adults always have at least some biramous appendages.
- He points out that all of the branches or groups technically called clades known to have primitively eusocial species—aculeate wasps, halictine and xylocopine bees, sponge-nesting shrimp, termopsid termites, colonial aphids and thrips, ambrosia beetles, and naked mole rats—rely on colonies that build and occupy defensible nests. SuperCooperators
- RE: Asgard can't think primitively - how often does anyone overlook the simple answer beaus they start over thinking something? Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'Small Victories' (S04E01)