rudimentary
adjective
ru·di·men·ta·ry
ˌrü-də-ˈmen-tə-rē
-ˈmen-trē
1
: consisting in first principles : fundamental
had only a rudimentary formal education—D. J. Boorstin
2
: of a primitive kind
the equipment of these past empire-builders was rudimentary—A. J. Toynbee
3
: very imperfectly developed or represented only by a vestige
the rudimentary tail of a hyrax
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