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   rudiment

   /ˈruːdɪm(ə)nt/

   noun

   • 1. the first principles of (a subject): "she taught the girls the rudiments of reading and writing"
   • ▪ an elementary or primitive form of (something): "the rudiments of a hot-water system"
   • 2. an undeveloped or immature part or organ, especially a structure in an embryo or larva which will develop into an organ, limb, etc.: "the fetal lung rudiment"
   • 3. a basic pattern used by drummers, such as the roll, the flam, and the paradiddle.

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from French, or from Latin rudimentum, from rudis ‘unwrought’, on the pattern of elementum ‘element’.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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