It was originally built of brick and rubblework, but since the restoration in the seventeenth century it has lost its primitive character.

As such, it is not considered a musical instrument but an instrument of theological symbolism which has been intentionally kept to its primitive character.

Preparations for retiring had to be of a very primitive character.

The palate is closed - a primitive character, but very different from the temnospondyls.

Most of the early issues of Mauritius were locally designed and produced and have a distinct "primitive" character.

In phylogenetic nomenclature, the term has been interpreted as derived from plesiomorphy, meaning a primitive character.

So primitive characters of monocots may be present in some derived groups.

They have typical primitive characters like the nacreous interior of the shell.

The finale contains original themes only and, in the composer's words, "tries to express the rough, primitive character of the Celtic people."

Others supposedly fled to Aetolia, another region that retained a primitive character into Classical times.