"primitive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Bagaceratops evolved later but retains more primitive characteristics than its earlier relative.
- Another primitive characteristic is the short symphysis of the mandible.
- How could man as a species progress when there was greater survival value in retaining primitive characteristics?
- Both families share a number of primitive characteristics.
- This combination of modern and primitive characteristics seem to set the Atapuerca boy apart from any previously recognized species, the researchers said.
- The marginal teeth were high-crowned, with only a few cusps, which is a primitive characteristic.
- Because of its ancient ancestry and "primitive" characteristics, it has been described as a "living fossil".
- Archostemata is an ancient lineage with a number of primitive characteristics.
- Would it be such a surprise to find many of these primitive characteristics hidden in some deep remove of our psyches?
- Because of this primitive characteristics, the genus was considered by some as not being true orchids.
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