Crossword clues for primordial
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Primordial \Pri*mor"di*al\, a. [L. primordialis, from primordium the first beginning; primus first + ordiri to begin a web, to begin: cf. F. primordial.]
First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition. ``The primordial facts of our intelligent nature.''
--Sir W. Hamilton.(Geol.) Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian.
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(Biol.) Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ; as, a primordial leaf; a primordial cell.
Primordial utricle (Bot.), the interior lining of a young vegetable cell.
Primordial \Pri*mor"di*al\, n. A first principle or element.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 first, earliest or original 2 (context biology English) characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium 3 primeval n. A first principle or element.
WordNet
adj. having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life" [syn: aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval]
Wikipedia
Primordial may refer to:
- Primordial era, an era after the Big Bang. See Chronology of the universe
- Primordial sea (a.k.a. primordial ocean, ooze or soup). See Abiogenesis
- Primordial nuclide, nuclides, a few radioactive, that formed before the Earth existed and are stable enough to still occur on Earth
- Primordial elements, elements formed before the Earth came into existence
- Primordial narcissism, the psychological condition of prenatal existence
- Primordialism, the argument which contends that nations are ancient, natural phenomena
- Primordial (company), a company that develops vision system software for soldiers
Primordial is an extreme metal band from Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland. It was formed in 1987 by Pól MacAmhlaigh (bass) and Ciarán MacUiliam (guitars). Their sound blends black metal and doom metal with Celtic music.
Primordial (formerly Soldier Vision) develops vision system software for soldiers. Primordial's flagship product, Primordial Soldier, is designed to enhance situational awareness by presenting information in a soldier's head-mounted display. Primordial Soldier interfaces with a position tracker, head tracker, and wireless transceiver. Primordial Soldier is designed for soldier systems such as the Land Warrior and Future Force Warrior. Primordial Soldier's development is supported in part by the United States Army's Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) in Alexandria, Virginia.
Usage examples of "primordial".
He had to believe that the gene banks had merely been a phase in an evolutionary story that stretched back from the present to the magical day when fife had first ventured forth from the littoral zones of the primordial ocean to embrace the land.
He had to believe that the gene banks had merely been a phase in an evolutionary story that stretched back from the present to the magical day when life had first ventured forth from the littoral zones of the primordial ocean to embrace the land.
Naturalists, however, use such language only in a metaphorical sense: they are far from meaning that during a long course of descent, primordial organs of any kind--vertebrae in the one case and legs in the other--have actually been modified into skulls or jaws.
And thanks to the nature of the primordial Earth, these spheres could have been formed in great profusion every time dry proteinoid was washed off some rocky ledge by a wave or rain.
In a dream-like state I envisioned the final struggles of a primordial protocell trying to properly align its pigmented spot to sunlight for the energy required to keep itself buoyant and replicate.
In the third bladder, the quadrifids included distinctly visible granules, and the primordial utricle was a little shrunk after only 8 hrs.
In the second specimen, the primordial utricles were considerably shrunk and brownish after 2 hrs.
If glands which have already become brown, with their primordial utricles shrunk, are irrigated with one of the effective solutions, they are not acted on, or only slightly and slowly.
Like some ancient patterning-- a primordial attraction and joining of masses from different orbits for the synergetic purpose of a newly enjoined future.
But loose underfur, working its way out through the layers of his guard hair in tatters around his flanks, made him look primordial, wild and unfinished.
In addition he retained the flashing, lightning-quick speed of the primordial barbarian, unslowed by civilized comfort.
Turning away from the windows, Blake noticed that the cobwebbed cross above the altar was not of the ordinary kind, but resembled the primordial ankh or crux ansata of shadowy Egypt.
His working day had started unpropitiously, since an aeroplane survey of the nearly-exposed rock surfaces showed an entire absence of those Archaean and primordial strata for which he was looking, and which formed so great a part of the colossal peaks that loomed up at a tantalizing distance from the camp.
It was a red drama of the primitive-destruction amuck and ariot, the primordial embodied in fangs and talons, gone mad and plunging in slaughter.
Not the benign and just devas that civilized Aryas worshipped, but the primordial spirit-lords that the Asura races bowed toas did a few discontented Aryas like Manthara herself.