Being of vegetable origin, it had little intelligence and only a rudimentary nervous system.

It's a fairly rudimentary system, but it works well.

Pentagon officials say they are on the way to setting up a rudimentary system called a test bed in the fall of 2004.

The natives obviously had a rudimentary legal system and sense of justice, but it was all very crude.

But these organisms have such rudimentary nervous systems that they don't experience pain as we know it.

Perhaps then, and only then, some form of rudimentary alert system might be useful.

This rudimentary system is now ready for the user to input data.

The most rudimentary systems simply turn the car's sound system into a hands-free speakerphone.

A rudimentary system of ground-level power supply was used on some stretches with mixed success.

Another major step, the experts said, was to strengthen the rudimentary system for warning of high-dose days.