Worldwide, there are about 3,400 members of this very ancient plant group, which exhibit primitive characteristics.    From LearnThat.org.  [Diane E. Bilderback]

"`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

primitive societies.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

While evolution does not have a pre-ordained directionality, cladistically the term primitive has meaning. mplavcan replied to comment from RBH.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australopithecus sediba and the creationist response - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Go back as far as we like, and, Aristotle thinks, we still find certain primitive differences which constitute what we call the primitive elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progress and History] Reference

Your explanation of the term primitive was very insightful, and I’ll be sure to refer to your post when I next see it misused.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mosasaur and the missing link - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

To call it primitive would make it sound better than it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [What brought you to live in Mexico] Reference

If the word primitive is no longer used, what word is used now?.    From Wordnik.com.  [calling all anthropologists] Reference

“I’m not sure I like the word evolution any more than the word primitive.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orchid] Reference

More stories of the US health care system, for which primitive is too polite a word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Linkspam for 25-7-2009] Reference

The resulting system is sometimes referred to as the primitive or hydrostatic equations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gerry Browning: Numerical Climate Models « Climate Audit] Reference

The Britishs imprisoned captured Americans on rotting hulks at sea in primitive conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I] Reference

It was great -- an orgy under the sky, a contest of beaker-men, a study in primitive beastliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local Colour] Reference

It was great — an orgy under the sky, a contest of beaker-men, a study in primitive beastliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local Color] Reference

Even here in primitive Ajijic 75% of the High School kids have cell phones, and many use text messaging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cost of gas overwhelming in Mexico] Reference

Many researchers believe the genetic code evolved in primitive membranes and involved horizontal mechanisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chunkdz Comes Out Smokin] Reference

It is you who would for sake our present social wisdom, ruling modern men by laws which obtained in primitive life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference

As I understood it, that is why, in primitive, polyamorous/polyandrous societies, the avuncular relationship is so important.    From Wordnik.com.  [ProWomanProLife » Why am I so skeptical?] Reference

The only vexation he suffered was the death of Nalasu and the disappearance of Jerry -- his two experiments in primitive eugenics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 19] Reference

The only vexation he suffered was the death of Nalasu and the disappearance of Jerry — his two experiments in primitive eugenics.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XIX] Reference

Too bad for the workers and their families, but a inline is not a primitive firearm and shouldn't be allowed for use in primitive seasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knight Rifles Goes Under] Reference

It seems to be generally the case in primitive communities that the women, when they get beyond a certain age, shrink to the size of children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marrakech] Reference

Jakobson derived the term "phatic" (for communications that foreground the contact) from Malinowski's work on meaning in "primitive" languages.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference

I have been told that some Zapotec families, living in primitive conditions in the mountains of Oaxaca, are so poor that they sell their children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The servant] Reference

But do you know that geologists tell us that this bay was the crater of a volcano; that in primitive times it simply belched fury and flame and fire?.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Peace and Good Will] Reference

Out of it he had made a magnificent deerpark, where, over thousands of acres of sweet slopes and glades and canyons, the deer ran almost in primitive wildness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 18: The Shadow of Sonoma] Reference

Islamic civilization was at its height when much of Europe was living in primitive living conditions, very low literacy rates, and doing little more than surviving.    From Wordnik.com.  [How do Muslims explain the loss of Islamic civilization’s former leadership in fields of science & technology? « Technology Literacy Help « Literacy Help « Literacy News] Reference

We, who mastered the planet its earth, and sea, and sky -- and who were as very gods, now live in primitive savagery along the water courses of this California country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Page 2] Reference

We, who mastered the planet its earth, and sea, and sky — and who were as very gods, now live in primitive savagery along the water courses of this California country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Plague] Reference

The village may be roughly described as a primitive association on a larger scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia] Reference

Just now I was recalling a primitive Brazilian tribe in whose language the word 'we' means also.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seeker] Reference

It was, Mr. Goodchild went on to say, in cross-examination, what you might call a primitive place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices] Reference

They are encountering it even in so-called primitive societies where prearranged marriage is the rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isn't It Romantic?] Reference

But alas! dear child, a woman cannot stand alone in society except it be in what is called a primitive state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatrix] Reference

It's safer, and once insurance gets on board, you know, in 10 years ... mammograms will be known as primitive cancer-causers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

Is a tenet, or a practice taught when Christianity had been more than six hundred years in the world, to be called primitive?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps] Reference