The remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life.

Roget 66: beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation^†; introduction etc. (precursor) 64; alpha, initial; inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation [Fr.], rising of the curtain; maiden speech; outbreak, onset, brunt; initiative, move, first move; narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge; fresh start, new departure.    origin etc. (cause) 153; source, rise; bud, germ etc. 153; egg, rudiment; genesis, primogenesis^†, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy; start, inception, creation, starting point etc. 293; dawn etc. (morning) 125; evolution.    title-page; head, heading; van etc. (front) 234; caption, fatihah^†.    entrance, entry; inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon^†, door; gate, gateway; postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule; propylaeum^†; skirts, border etc. (edge) 231.    first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight.    rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABC.    ... show more

Roget 193: littleness etc. adj.; smallness etc. (of quantity) 32; exiguity, inextension^†; parvitude^†, parvity^†; duodecimo^†; Elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm; rudiment; vanishing point; thinness etc. 203.    dwarf, pygmy, pigmy^†, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon^†, urchin, elf; atomy^†, dandiprat^†; doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb^†; manikin, mannikin; homunculus, dapperling^†, cock-sparrow.    animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet^†, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon^†; bacteria; infusoria^†; microzoa [Micro.]; phytozoaria^†; microbe; grub; tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of sand; molehill, button, bubble.    point; atom etc. (small quantity) 32; fragment etc. (small part) 51; powder etc. 330; point of a pin, mathematical point; minutiae etc. (unimportance) 643.    micrometer; vernier; scale.    microphotography, photomicrography, micrography^†; photomicrograph, microphotograph; microscopy; microscope (optical instruments) 445.    ... show more

Roget 153: cause, origin, source, principle, element; occasioner^†, prime mover, primum mobile [Lat.]; vera causa [Lat.]; author etc. (producer) 164; mainspring; agent; leaven; groundwork, foundation etc. (support) 215.    spring, fountain, well, font; fountainhead, spring head, wellhead; fons et origo [Lat.], genesis; descent etc. (paternity) 166; remote cause; influence.    pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum; key; proximate cause, causa causans [Lat.]; straw that breaks the camel's back.    ground; reason, reason why; why and wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation; final cause etc. (intention) 620; les dessous des cartes [Fr.]; undercurrents.    rudiment.    egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule^†, radicle, semen, sperm.    nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed.    causality, causation; origination; production etc. 161.    ... show more

Dutch: rudiment, oerbeginsel