Worldwide, there are about 3,400 members of this very ancient plant group, which exhibit primitive characteristics. From LearnThat.org. [Diane E. Bilderback]
primitive societies. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived. 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
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