"primitive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was originally built of brick and rubblework, but since the restoration in the seventeenth century it has lost its primitive character.
- As such, it is not considered a musical instrument but an instrument of theological symbolism which has been intentionally kept to its primitive character.
- Preparations for retiring had to be of a very primitive character.
- The palate is closed - a primitive character, but very different from the temnospondyls.
- Most of the early issues of Mauritius were locally designed and produced and have a distinct "primitive" character.
- In phylogenetic nomenclature, the term has been interpreted as derived from plesiomorphy, meaning a primitive character.
- So primitive characters of monocots may be present in some derived groups.
- They have typical primitive characters like the nacreous interior of the shell.
- The finale contains original themes only and, in the composer's words, "tries to express the rough, primitive character of the Celtic people."
- Others supposedly fled to Aetolia, another region that retained a primitive character into Classical times.
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