Another word for rudiments

From his father he received the rudiments of his education, which was continued at Leiden under A.

Of Kirkby, from whom he learned the rudiments of English and Latin grammar, he speaks gratefully, and doubtless truly, so far as he could trust the impressions of childhood.

Lubbock traced at least twenty moults in Cloeon; at about the tenth rudiments of the wingcases began to appear.

The eggcell or oosphere is a large cell containing a single large nucleus, and in the green plants the rudiments of plastids.

Infant asylums (where the first rudiments of instruction are imparted to children between two and a half and six years of age) and elementary schools have increased in number.