primary element
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Networks of microtubules grow like tree roots into branching systems that form a primary element of the cytoskeleton that gives cells their shape and enables them to divide.
From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2024
In Izzard’s mind, there was always going to be a stage version as a companion piece — though she had envisioned the audiobook as the primary element.
From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2022
Its primary element is a low, semicircular stone wall with 19 names and a series of dates inscribed on it at regular intervals.
From Salon • Jul. 4, 2021
In a Katz painting, style—the way it’s painted—is the primary element.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018
This is the higher meaning of the Heraclitean thought, that fire is the primary element of all things.
From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Collison, Harry