Vocabulary Word
Word: prototype
Definition: original work used as a model by others
Definition: original work used as a model by others
Sentences Containing 'prototype'
They believe that every race which breeds true, let the distinctive characters be ever so slight, has had its wild prototype.
Professor Pictet, in his excellent Review of this work, in commenting on early transitional forms, and taking birds as an illustration, cannot see how the successive modifications of the anterior limbs of a supposed prototype could possibly have been of any advantage.
More Vocab Words
::: apogee - highest point; the point farthest from the earth; OP. perigee::: appropriate - acquire; take possession of for one's own use without permission; set aside for a particular purpose; allocate; CF. misappropriate
::: variegate - change the appearance of (by marking with different colors)
::: unprecedented - having no previous example; novel; unparalleled
::: levitate - rise and float in the air (especially by magical means); CF. light
::: titter - nervous giggle; nervous laugh; V.
::: licentious - amoral; lewd and lascivious; unrestrained
::: natation - swimming
::: calumny - malicious misrepresentation; slander
::: apposite - appropriate; fitting
