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rudiment

[roo-duh-muhnt] / ˈru də mənt /




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Rudiment, used here as a translation for the word anlage, which means the first plotting-out or beginning of a living structure.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar

B. Rudiment further advanced, showing the foundations of the head, tail, and vertebral column.

From Lectures and Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry

Figure 1.177: Rudiment of flying membrane, membranous fold between fore and hind leg. n umbilical vessel, o ear-opening, f flying membrane.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Rudiment of second flower wanting; glumes and palet rather chartaceous, compressed-keeled; flowering glume 1-nerved, entirely awnless; palet strongly 2-keeled; panicle at length open and loose.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Rudiment of the sterile stamen a scale on the upper lip.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa




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