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rudiment

noun
  1. the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life
    “Meckel's diverticulum is the rudiment of the embryonic yolk sac”
  2. the elementary stages of any subject; usually plural
    “They mastered only the rudiments of geometry.”
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