primordium
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An aggregation of cells that is the first stage in the development of an organ.
noun
A primordial, original condition or event.
Example Sentences
- "In tomato, for example, the first sepal primordium is formed as an outgrowth at the periphery of the apex and the subsequent sepal primordia are initiated in a helical fashion at an angle of approximately 137° from the previous one."
- "It is thus vain to hope that the history of the primordia can be reduced to the progress of archeological investigation."
- "Attempts have been made by historians of religion to distinguish between mythic orientations in time concerned with the repetition of a primordium and those concerned with the anticipation of an eschaton."
- "[Joseph Smith] did not think of himself as going back to a primordium of true Christianity, as the Puritans did. In his view, there never was a golden age when religion flourished to perfection."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin prīmōrdium.