RUDIMENT

• (noun) the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life

  "Meckel's diverticulum is the rudiment of the embryonic yolk sac"

• (noun) the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)

  "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"

  synonyms : abc , abc's , abcs , alphabet , first principle , first rudiment

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