primitive
adjective
being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world.
semiprimitive
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a word derived from
primitive.
Example Sentences
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"Modernizing Genoa," Mayer mused, "should be considerably easier than the task on semiprimitive Texcoco."
From Adaptation by John Schoenherr
