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primordial soups

primordial soups is the plural of primordial soup.

Meaning of primordial soup

Noun

primordial soup (countable and uncountable, plural primordial soups)

  1. (informal, evolutionary theory) The state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history, during the early development of multicellular organisms.
  2. (figuratively) A collection of ideas or objects that become refined over time.
    • While the number of ideas floating in this primordial soup is quite large , only a few ever receive serious consideration.1995, Nikolaos Zahariadis, Markets, States, and Public Policy, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN

Questions about primordial soups

What is primordial soups the plural of?
Primordial soups is the plural of primordial soup.

Words near primordial soups in the dictionary

  1. primordial phalluses
  2. primordial sea
  3. primordial seas
  4. primordial sludge
  5. primordial soup
  6. primordial soups
  7. primordialism
  8. primordialisms
  9. primordialities
  10. primordiality
  11. primordially

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