primordial

adjective
/pɹaɪˈmɔː.di.əl/

First, earliest or original.

Other meanings

Characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium.
“a primordial leaf; a primordial cell”
Of an element or isotope: occurring primordially (on Earth) (i.e. inherited from when the Earth was formed)

Related words

equiprimordial
nonprimordial
primordialism
primordiality
primordially
primordial black hole
primordial cell
primordial element
primordial fluctuations
primordial chaos
primordial phallus
primordial sea

Example sentences

“How many primordial black holes are there in the universe?”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “primordial” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.