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Meanings of primitive trait in English
Russian
примитивность (Of a lineage or taxon) one that is inherited from the common ancestor of a clade (or clade group) and has undergone little change since.
Synonyms
Examples for "primitive"
Examples for "primitive"
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Raw primitive nature could in no way support such a large population.
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There you will observe primitive constructs known as 'teddy bear' and 'womble'.
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The idea of vegetation in general is too abstract to be primitive.
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Iran's centrifuge-based enrichment programme is rather primitive and beset by technical problems.
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His energy is simple, primitive, infinite.' These were hallmarks of true greatness.
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Lower case letters (a-d) indicate ancestral character states, and upper case letters (A-D) indicate derived character states.
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We then related these to changes that correlated with shifts in lambdamax by reconstructing ancestral character states using a maximum-likelihood approach.
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But others could be linked in a series, with the parent as prototype, either by loss of ancestral characters or by simple quantitative alteration.
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We can understand these facts, on the well-known principle of reversion to ancestral characters, if all the domestic breeds are descended from the rock-pigeon.
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They retained that ancestral trait out of pure necessity.
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Am I to understand that crime is nowadays looked upon as the recurrence of an ancestral trait?
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Apart from Pinus, most ancestral trait reconstruction relative to fire has been conducted on predominantly Southern Hemisphere clades and this needs to be redressed.
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There are many curious variations with regard to the inheritance of ancestral traits.
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He recognized biased tendencies to certain states of variation, particularly reversions toward ancestral features.
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The furniture of the cabins was of the same primitive character.
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The tenantry on the Abbey estate partake of this primitive character.
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The Christology of these passages is a striking proof of their primitive character.
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Preparations for retiring had to be of a very primitive character.
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It retained much of its primitive character of a student's festivity.
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He says the remains show a mix of modern and primitive features.
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Probably represents incredibly advanced evolution of radiata without loss of certain primitive features.
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Yet Sennelager was absolutely devoid of the most primitive features of a safe sanitary system.
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In fact, our guest thinks that modern humans have kept a lot of primitive features from our distant ancestors.
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Instead, they have several primitive features, some of which look like the older species H. erectus, while some look more like Neanderthals.
Usage of primitive trait in English
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This reliance on authority is a fundamental primitive trait.
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My family and friends severely criticise this primitive trait of mine, but I can not help it.
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The man who committed these acts still has strong primitive traits.
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This country is settled by genuine Americans, who have the aboriginal primitive traits of the universal Yankee nation.
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Hominids and ourselves bear many primitive traits that haven't been specialized like they have in gorillas, said Lovejoy.