Definition of "primordia" []

• Plural form of primordium. (noun)

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• "This defense requires an account of the difference between capacities which are activated here and now, or are more or less ready to be so actuated, and radical capacities such as exist in the epigenetic primordia of even very young human beings, and in the genetic and somatic constitution of even the severely disabled."
• ""Yes, but the key to understanding and manipulating plant form lies in unraveling the communication machinery that enables shoot apical meristem cells to continuously coordinate the processes of stem-cell proliferation and organ primordia initiation.""
• "For no one can look at the primordia of the human frame-blood, flesh, bones, vessels, and the like-without much repugnance."