We learned the rudiments of writing essays in school. From LearnThat.org.
Meckel's diverticulum is the rudiment of the embryonic yolk sac. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We have taught them a rudiment of American democracy. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Shearer: "We Won't Take That History Lightly"] Reference
This membrane is represented in animals by a rudiment only. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
For the same reason the lung rudiment of one side only is shown. From Wordnik.com. [Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator] Reference
Even for Anna, suspicion had to have at least a rudiment of logic to buoy it up. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lure]
In the latter case we have "pleasure" as the end and no rudiment of the conception "duty.". From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Pinnotheridæ; in which the fifth pair of legs are reduced to an almost imperceptible rudiment 27. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
The grass had brushed most of the mud from its rudiment of a face, and I could see its enormous smile. From Wordnik.com. [Duma Key]
That this appendage is a rudiment, we may infer from its small size, and from the evidence which Prof. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The paradiddle is another important snare drum rudiment that will help one get a handle on the sticks. From Wordnik.com. [ParaMonday « Fairegarden] Reference
Then he shifted his grip so that his fingers were on the doll's rudiment of a neck and her cloth shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Duma Key]
Marriage is the rudiment of all social life, from which all others spring, out of which all others are developed. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference
And as concerning divine philosophy or natural theology, it is that knowledge or rudiment of knowledge concerning. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
The serious writer, his past fogged by reckless existentialist thought, recognised the Nietzschean rudiment and smiled knowingly. From Wordnik.com. [and His Penis] Reference
Just anterior to these openings the cloaca opens ventrally into a small, anteriorly-projecting pouch, the rudiment of the allantois. From Wordnik.com. [Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator] Reference
As a result, a community living with emphases on culture and self-culture is very much a reality today, though a rudiment at the moment. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
With respect to the alimentary canal, I have met with an account of only a single rudiment, namely the vermiform appendage of the caecum. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
When the egg leaves the ovary the nucleus disappears, leaving behind it this rudiment of the blastoderm, which rapidly grows and increases in size. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
The stomach, which is irregularly conical in shape, lies in a place slightly nearer the observer than the end of the lung rudiment mentioned above. From Wordnik.com. [Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator] Reference
Description of a new Genus of Crustacea, of the Family Pinnotheridæ; in which the fifth pair of legs are reduced to an almost imperceptible rudiment. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Only the rudiment of the sense is born with the poet, and few literary lives are fortunate enough, or of sufficiently varied experience, to mature it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
The hinder of these two seemed to him to be a horn of the hyoid, the front one, which was bent at an angle, to be the rudiment of the upper and lower jaws (p. 401). From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
He finds that in all cases a pentadactylate rudiment is formed, even in those forms in which only a few of the elements of the hand or foot come to full development. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
He confirmed in its essentials Reichert's account of the metamorphoses of the first two visceral arches, describing how the rudiment of the skeleton of the first arch appears as. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Sometimes a rudiment of a fifth toe appears to be traceable. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Evolution] Reference
The implications of its presence or absence as a rudiment are overstated by Short. From Wordnik.com. [Cryptomundo] Reference
The fish form is that in which we have only a rudiment of the cerebrum, which is so large in man. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5] Reference
Seeds of hermaphrodite flowers quadrangular, crowned by one long awn, and the rudiment of another. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
Had I read No. VI., even a rudiment of modesty would, or ought to, have stopped me saying so much. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
It happened, for my sins, that none of these admirable birds had anything beyond the merest rudiment of a tail. From Wordnik.com. [Essays of Travel] Reference
But this action always presents, to some extent, the character of contingency; it implies at least a rudiment of choice. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference
We have already seen that in numberless cases, such as that of the fore-limbs of serpents, no vestige of a rudiment is present. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference
"I an animal!" cries Richard in scorn, and for weeks he was as troubled by this rudiment of self-knowledge as Tom by his letters. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
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