Preprimitive

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Before a primitive age. not-comparable

    "The Stony Hill Cemetery, lying beyond the “heavily wooded areas of maple oak,” remains in an essentially preprimitive state."

  2. 2
    Of a variety: not itself primitive, but whose proper subvarieties are all primitive. not-comparable

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"The Stony Hill Cemetery, lying beyond the “heavily wooded areas of maple oak,” remains in an essentially preprimitive state."

Etymology

From pre- + primitive.

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