primitive condition

collocation in English

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primitive
adjective
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/ˈprɪm.ɪ.tɪv/us
/ˈprɪm.ə.t̬ɪv/
relating to human society at a very early stage of development, with people living in a simple way without machines or a ...
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condition
noun
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/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/us
/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/
the particular state that something or someone ...
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Theprimitiveconditionis either amphiplaty or amphicoely.
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I may add that the districts in question are a long way from headquarters and the people are still largely in aprimitivecondition.
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But at the time when these rules grew up society was in a very different and moreprimitiveconditionthan it is now.
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At this point, speech returns to itsprimitivecondition, and with it men.
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Gymnovaries are theprimitiveconditionfound in lungfish, sturgeon, and bowfin.
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The paired organs in the mantle cavity represent aprimitiveconditionin gastropods.
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The first, thought to be theprimitivecondition, bears virtually the entire pelvic fin.
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The presence of a five-fingered hand represents theprimitiveconditionof dinosaurs.
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A plantigrade foot is theprimitiveconditionfor mammals; digitigrade and unguligrade locomotion evolved later.
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He blamed theirprimitiveconditionon the rigors of the climate.
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It is not easy to deal with a matter of this sort, because we are dealing with a tribe which is still in a fairlyprimitivecondition.
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The moreprimitiveconditionis for there to be no proximodorsal process, but a large obturator process.
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The property was not logged for many years, as the family desired to maintain it in aprimitivecondition.
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Worms in this order only have one proglottid, which is believed to be theprimitiveconditionfor tapeworms.
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Similar spurs have been found in the fossils of several early mammals, and is possibly theprimitiveconditionin mammals as a whole.
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However, the majority of early crocodilians, even some early alligatoroids, resembled modern crocodiles because a triangular, crocodile-shaped head is aprimitiveconditionfor crocodilians.
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Therefore, their structure, though poorly known, has often been used in evolutionary scenarios to illustrate theprimitiveconditionof the vertebrate dermal skeleton.
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The sciurognathous condition is considered to be theprimitiveconditionin rodents, and is therefore not a good character according to cladistic philosophy.
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As gills are theprimitiveconditionof vertebrates, all vertebrate embryos develop pharyngeal arches, though the eventual fate of these arches varies between taxa.
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In a flexoglossate radula (theprimitivecondition), the teeth flex outwards to the sides as they round the tip of the odontophore, before flexing back inwards.
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When heat is created by any unreversible process (such as friction), there is a "dissipation" of mechanical energy, and a full "restoration" of it to itsprimitiveconditionis impossible.
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