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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Being or happening first in sequence of time; original.
  2. adj. Primary or fundamental: play a primordial role.
  3. adj. Biology Belonging to or characteristic of the earliest stage of development of an organism or a part: primordial cells.
  4. n. A basic principle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. First in order; earliest; original; primitive; existing from the beginning.
  2. In anatomy, primitive; formative; in a rudimentary or embryonic state: opposed to definitive, or final, completed, or perfected: as, the primordial skull of man is partly membranous, partly cartilaginous.
  3. In botany, first formed: applied to the first true leaves formed by a young plant, also to the first fruit produced on a raceme or spike.
  4. In geology, containing the earliest traces of life.
  5. Synonyms Prime, etc. See primary.
  6. n. A first principle or element.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. first, earliest or original
  2. adj. biology characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium
  3. adj. primeval
  4. n. A first principle or element.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin.
  2. adj. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian.
  3. adj. (Biol.) Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ
  4. n. A first principle or element.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state

Etymologies

  1. From the Latin prīmōrdiālis ("of the beginning"). Confer primordium and -al. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Late Latin prīmōrdiālis, from Latin prīmōrdium, origin : prīmus, first; see per1 in Indo-European roots + ōrdīrī, to begin to weave; see ar- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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