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adj. Being or happening first in sequence of time; original.

adj. Primary or fundamental: play a primordial role.

adj. Biology Belonging to or characteristic of the earliest stage of development of an organism or a part: primordial cells.

n. A basic principle.

adj. first, earliest or original

adj. characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium

adj. primeval

n. A first principle or element.

adj. First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin.

adj. Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian.

adj. Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ

n. A first principle or element.

First in order; earliest; original; primitive; existing from the beginning.

In anatomy, primitive; formative; in a rudimentary or embryonic state: opposed to definitive, or final, completed, or perfected: as, the primordial skull of man is partly membranous, partly cartilaginous.

In botany, first formed: applied to the first true leaves formed by a young plant, also to the first fruit produced on a raceme or spike.

In geology, containing the earliest traces of life.

Synonyms Prime, etc. See primary.

n. A first principle or element.

adj. having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state

"He goes back to the first link, or to what he calls primordial generation."

early   

primordial utricle    primordial cell    primordial zone   

Cambrian   

primordial fluctuations    primordial element    primordial black hole    primordial soup    primordial cell   

primary    original    elementary   

primeval    primal    cosmic    bottomless    prehistoric    primitive    generative    inner    formless    aboriginal