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PRIMORDIUM
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Irregular inflected form: primordia
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development
Synonyms:
anlage; primordium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("primordium" is a kind of...):
organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)