Rudiment: alternatives and connections

A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be; as, adolescent, effervescent, etc.

Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches.

Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.

The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.

A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped…

The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame,…

Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.

The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning.

Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding.

Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.

Embryonic; undeveloped.

The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance int…

An unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment; a soluble, or chemical, ferment. Ptyalin, peps…

The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of t…

The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade un…

That part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure.