Meanings of first rudiment in English

The embryonic shield is simply the first rudiment of the dorsal part, which is the earliest to develop.

The first rudiment of it is always a simple vesicular enlargement of the fore end of the medullary tube.

In most works this embryonic shield is described as "the first rudiment or trace of the embryo," or "primitive embryo."

The cell-pit of the ectoderm that lies underneath is rather thick, and represents the first rudiment of a neural ganglion (vertical brain or acroganglion).

The rights of game are among the first rudiments of property.

You do not seem to know the first rudiments of agriculture.

He never acquired the first rudiments of knowledge.

He was born in great obscurity, and received his first rudiments of learning in a charity school.

The first rudiments of comb are often applied within the first half hour after the swarm is hived.

He had never learned to box, and was ignorant of the first rudiments of the art of self-defense.

I accepted his offer to be my instructor, and my first rudiments in the science were received from him.

We have already seen the first rudiments of its embryology, which in the main corresponds to its phylogeny (Figs.

She was advancing from one overpowering dread to another, accepting the first rudiments of surgery as the greatest of scientific marvels.

Now that they were no longer half-numbed with starvation, they had time both for leisure and for the first rudiments of thought.

In short, your little scene has failed in every point, and you do not know the first rudiments of this fine art.

The considerate elder tempts the child with inticements and caresses, that he may win his attention to the first rudiments of learning.