rudimental

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But colour-coding checkout screens is a pretty rudimental kind of gamification.

From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2018

He looked like a foreign exchange student with only a rudimental knowledge of a new language.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2013

In our present or rudimental state, our offspring are in our own image, and partake of our natures, in which are the seeds of death.

From Key to the Science of Theology by Pratt, Parley P.

In a laying hen may be found, upon opening the body, what is called the ovarium—a cluster of rudimental eggs, of different sizes, from very minute points up to shapes of easily-distinguished forms.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert

Still prevails the transitional state from the fluid to the solid; and the jelly, that rudiment in which all animals, even the noblest, have their commencement; constitutes the whole sphere of these rudimental animals.

From Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor