"primitives" in the noun sense
1. primitive, primitive person
a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
2. primitive
a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
3. primitive
a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
"`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
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