Local English word record

archaic

adjective · 2 senses

little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

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Examples

  • archaic forms of life
  • primitive mammals
  • the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe

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Synonyms

primitive

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