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UK
/pɹɪmˈɔːdɪəl/
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[ US /pɹaɪˈmɔɹdiəɫ, pɹɪˈmɔɹdiəɫ/ ]
[ US /pɹaɪˈmɔɹdiəɫ, pɹɪˈmɔɹdiəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
aboriginal forests
primordial forms of life
primordial matter
primal eras before the appearance of life on earth
the forest primeval
How To Use primordial In A Sentence
- These cells, about 40 m in diameter and termed primary oocytes, are enclosed within a single layer of squamous cells, forming a primordial follicle.
- The influential evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith coined the culinary term “primordial pizza” to capture the spottiness of this idea. SuperCooperators
- Democritus called his primordial element an atom; Anaxagoras, too, conceived a primordial element, but he called it merely a seed or thing; he failed to christen it distinctively. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
- Wilberforce was quite prepared to allow science unfettered freedom to research, and to accepts its findings, just because he did not think that science was the sole truth; if facts emerged which proved that men were descended from some primordial fungus, he could agree, but go on to enter a further ` but ', and adduce further considerations that marked humanity off from the rest of creation. May 7th, 2009
- Evidence from both the cosmic microwave background and primordial nucleosynthesis gives tight bounds on how much ordinary matter there is.
- The primordial concept of mauri has a similar, but distinct, function.
- Some nameless horror from the primordial depths.
- The answer of course, lies somewhere in between - somewhere deep in the primordial minestrone ooze where a new kind of food was born.
- Marshmallow, which grows in the primordial bogs and swamplands, was harvested and used to fashion these crude idols, which were then devoured to cure thigh ache.
- And she sings them with surging, almost primordial energy. Times, Sunday Times