Definitions for rudiment

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rudiment ru·di·ment

Spelling: [roo-duh-muh nt]

IPA: /ˈru də mənt/

Rudiment is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 324 anagrams from letters in rudiment (deimnrtu).

Definitions for rudiment

noun

1. Usually, rudiments. the elements or first principles of a subject: a mere beginning, first slight appearance, or undeveloped or imperfect form of something:
2. Biology. an organ or part incompletely developed in size or structure, as one in an embryonic stage, one arrested in growth, or one with no functional activity, as a vestige.

Origin of rudiment

1540-50; Latin rudīmentum early training, first experience, initial stage, equivalent to rudi(s) unformed, rough (see rude) + -mentum -ment (

Examples for rudiment

In the grub he has detected the rudiment of the wing and proboscis of the future being.

In the normal hind foot of the cat the hallux is represented by a rudiment only.

The fish form is that in which we have only a rudiment of the cerebrum, which is so large in man.

Thus, man has still the rudiment of the third eyelid of his shark-ancestor.

Yet we must admit that in this habit of birds there is the rudiment, at least, of self-education.

Yet it is not quite wanting, its rudiment is there, and this rudiment is capable of development.

A rudiment shows that nature might have given more, but has not done so.

Sometimes a rudiment of a fifth toe appears to be traceable.

rudiment -any: the beginning of any structure or part before it has developed.

Here the rudiment of a thought struck her and changed the current of her reason.