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Diminutive :: Diminutive (n.) A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin..

Pristinate :: Pristinate (a.) Pristine; primitive.

Primitial :: Primitial (a.) Being of the first production; primitive; original.

Kenogenesis :: Kenogenesis (n.) Modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment; -- distinguished from palingenesis..

Radical :: Radical (n.) A primitive word; a radix, root, or simple, underived, uncompounded word; an etymon..

Primitively :: Primitively (adv.) According to the original rule or ancient practice; in the ancient style.

Spermatogonium :: Spermatogonium (n.) A primitive seminal cell, occuring in masses in the seminal tubules. It divides into a mass (spermosphere) of small cells (spermoblast), which in turn give rise to spermatozoids..

Xerophagy :: Xerophagy (n.) Among the primitive Christians, the living on a diet of dry food in Lent and on other fasts..

Ranter :: Ranter (n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt..

Decrement :: Decrement (n.) A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced..

Phylactery :: Phylactery (n.) Among the primitive Christians, a case in which the relics of the dead were inclosed..

Aquarian :: Aquarian (n.) One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.

Cingalese :: Cingalese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitant.

Primeval :: Primeval (a.) Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man..

Primitively :: Primitively (adv.) Primarily; not derivatively.

Radix :: Radix (n.) A primitive word, from which spring other words; a radical; a root; an etymon..

Agape :: Agape (n.) The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion..

Etymologize :: Etymologize (v. t.) To give the etymology of; to trace to the root or primitive, as a word..

Originary :: Originary (a.) Primitive; primary; original.

Protovertebra :: Protovertebra (n.) One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm..

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